“…[1,2] It also serves as a key intermediate in the synthesis of biologically and pharmaceutically useful molecules. [2,3] Recently, in our study of the chemistry of electron-deficient cyclopropane derivatives, [4] we found that many weak nucleophiles (e.g., water, [5] methanol, [6] amine, [7][8][9] thiophenol, [10] and arsonium ylide [11] ) can react with electrondeficient cyclopropane derivatives to produce many types of new compounds with high stereoselectivity. In this article, we report that cis-1-benzoyl-2-aryl-6,6-dimethyl-5,7-dioxo-spiro-[2,5]-4,8-octadiones (1a-d) (X ¼ CH 3 , H, Cl, NO 2 ) react with aromatic amines (2a-…”