“…Ricinine [ 60 ] has been reported to exhibit pharmacological activities such as antifertility, antiimplantation, antinociceptive, anticancer, antidiabetic, and insecticidal activities ( Figure 1 A). On the other hand, ynones have emerged as valuable building blocks for the construction of complex heterocyclic rings, such as indole, pyrrole, pyridine, triazole, quinoline, thiazole, pyrimidine, and so on [ 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 ]. Recently, Trofimov and co-workers [ 74 ] reported the condensation of acylethynylpyrroles and 2-cyano-N-methylacetamide to form N-methyl-3-cyano-2-pyridones ( Figure 1 B).…”