“…The most frequent type of 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reaction of azomethine ylides is that with alkenyl or alkynyl dipolarophiles substituted with electron-withdrawing groups, providing access to pyrrolidine-containing molecules of biological [18,[22][23][24][25][26] or materials science interest [27][28][29][30][31]. The reactions with multiple bonded heteroatom systems such as carbonyl, thiocarbonyl, isothiocyanato, imino, isocyanato, nitrile, nitroso, and azo derivatives are also known, but less well studied [7,16,[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]. Less recognized is the ability of azomethine ylides to react with aromatic dipolarophiles when the aromatic system is embedded within a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, tethered with the azomethine ylide (an intramolecular process) or substituted with highly electron withdrawing nitro groups [39].…”