“…1 The widespread occurrence of pyrrolecontaining compounds in natural products, 2 pharmaceuticals, 3 and organic materials 4 has constantly stimulated organic and medicinal chemists to develop novel strategies for their synthesis and transformations. 5 Although a number of classical methods for constructing pyrrole rings including the Knorr, 6 Hantzsch, 7 and Paal-Knorr reaction 8 have been known for many years, the development of new approaches to afford pyrroles with multifunctional groups and several chiral centers still remains a challenge. Donor-acceptor (D-A) cyclopropanes, which exhibit a high level of reactivity to a wide range of nucleophiles and electrophiles in the presence of a Lewis acid, have been widely applied to the construction of a variety of skeletons, 9 especially five-, six-, seven-membered carbocycles and heterocycles.…”