“…2b,9a,b,10 On the other hand, as one of the five membered 1,2-dinitrogen heterocycles, pyrazolidine is an attractive subunit that exists in a broad range of biologically and pharmaceutically relevant compounds. 11 Many pyrazolidine derivatives possess high potential bioactivities such as antidepressants, 12 anesthetics 13 analgesic agents, 14 anticonvulsant activities, 15 antitumor, 16 and antimicrobial agents 17 ( Figure 1). However, in contrast to their analogues such as trifluoromethylated pyrazolines 18 and pyrazoles, 19 the reports on synthetic methods and bioactivity studies on trifluoromethylated pyrazolidines are formidably scarce in literature although many reports on the synthesis of non-trifluoromethylated pyrazolidines have appeared.…”