“…Dihydropyridones are important intermediates for the synthesis of natural products, particularly alkaloids, and have been investigated extensively as valuable building blocks for the construction of piperidines, perhydroquinolines, indolizidines, quinolizidines and other alkaloid ring systems possessing a wide range of biological and pharmacological properties [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ]. For their synthesis, the addition of Grignard reagents to 1-acyl-4-methoxy pyridinium salts has been exploited by Commins [ 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ].…”