Solvent polarity and reaction temperature strongly influence the reactions of dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) with I-pyrrolidinyl enamines of acyclic and cyclic ketones. Whereas DMAD and I-[l-phenylt-@henylthio)ethenyl]pyrrolidiae (3) give only a mixture of the isomeric I$-butadiencs (5) in apolar solvents, in methanol the main product is the pyrrolizine 7, together with 5. Again in methanol, DMAD reacts at 0-Y with 8.9 and 10 to give exclusively I : I adducts, tbe pyrrolizines 11, 12 and 13, respectively, whereas at-50" 8 and 9 give I : 2 (enamine : DMAD) adducts. the pyrrolixines 14 and 15, respectively; a siqle crystal X-ray analysis of 14 gave the structure of the I : 2 adducta. In the same solvent methyl propiolate and 8 give only the linear Michael adduct 17. The enamine-ketone 18 reacts with DMAD in propylene carbonate at W' to give, via (2 t Zj-cycloaddition and ring expansion, 19, and the linear Michael adduct 20. The mechanism of (2 t Zj-cycloaddition and pyrrolizine formation is discussed in terms of a common tied-ion pair intermediate formed in the first. ratedetermining step,