Synthesis of 2-aminoindolizines by 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of pyridinium ylides with electron-deficient ynamides.

Electron-deficient ynamides, possessing an ynoate or an ynone moiety, have been successfully involved for the first time in a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with stabilized pyridinium ylides. These reactions afford an efficient and general access toward a variety of substituted 2-aminoindolizines which can serve as useful precursors for the synthesis of other more complex nitrogen heterocycles.