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Quaternary centers are rapidly and selectively installed in a series of seven‐membered and bridged cyclic oxonitriles through conjugate addition of an alkoxide to chloroalkenenitriles, followed by a Claisen rearrangement. Using this strategy, the stereogenic information of the carbinol in secondary allylic alcohols is transferred to the newly generated quaternary center. Experimentally, the sequence...