“…There has been intense interest in their addition reactions, such as cycloaddition [13][14][15], nucleophilic [11,16,17], and electrophilic [18,19] addition. The trapping of the 1:1 intermediate formed between dialkyl acetylenedicarboxylates and isocyanides with OH, NH, and CH acids has been widely studied [20][21][22][23][24]. In continuation of our works on the reaction between isocyanides and acetylenic esters in the presence of organic acids [25][26][27][28], in this paper we present the results of an extended investigation on the reactivity of the intermediate zwitterion with 2,2,2-trifluoro-N-aryl-acetamides as N-H acids in dichloromethane leading to the formation of thermally stable ketenimine derivatives in good yields.…”