“…The pyrrolin‐2‐one scaffold is present in a range of natural products and pharmaceuticals, most of these displaying interesting biological activities (Figure 1), [1] e. g., I (antiviral), [2] II (against Plasmodium falciparum K1), [3] III (anti‐apoptotic), [4] IV (antitumoral), [5] V (antibiotic), [6] VI (electron acceptor and fluorescent probe), [7] VII (antibacterial) [8] and VIII (neurotrophic properties) [9] . A promising approach for synthesis of pharmaceutically and biologically active pyrrolin‐2‐ones, has been rarely explored due to their poor synthetic accessibility.…”