Dedicated to Prof. Dr. W. Walter on the occasion of his 70th birthday (1 5.1X. 89) The title compound 7 is obtained by reductive dehalogenation from 4-bromo-2,3-dihydro-2,2,-dimethyl-3-0x0-1H-pyrrole-1-carboxylate (8) in 90% yield. Aza-enone 7 undergoes [2 + 21 cycloaddition from the triplet state with both electron-rich and electron-deficient alkenes. The behaviour of 7 in light-induced reactions is compared to those of 2,2-dimethyl-3(2H)-furanone (la) and of the corresponding thiophenone lb. In the photodimerization and the cycloaddition to either 2,3-dimethylbut-2-ene or to dimethyl maleate of these ketonic five-membered heterocycles with one heteroatom, the overall efficiency increases in going from the furan l a to the thiophene l b and to the pyrrole 7.