Strategic C-C Bond-Forming Dearomatization of Pyridines and Quinolines.

A one-pot protocol for the dearomative double nucleophilic addition to pyridines and quinolines, providing convenient, regioselective and diastereoselective access to tetrahydropyridines and tetrahydroquinolines under reductant-free conditions is described. This method also offers a new strategy for the general dearomatization of nitrogen heteroaromatics.