Research progress is often promoted by unexpected results that open the way to new scenarios. In this communication, an unprecedented condensation of arylacetic acids and isocyanides and the unusual base-mediated rearrangement of the resulting products to give two novel classes of polysubstituted pyrrolones and pyrrolidinediones are reported.

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