Xiaohua Liu and Xiaoming Feng of Sichuan University devised (J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 6322) a catalyst that mediated the addition of the ylide 2 to the enone 1 to give 3. Peng-fei Xu of Lanzhou University found (Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 4625) that the vinyl pyrrole 4 was sufficiently nucleophilic to add to 5, leading to the cyclobutane 6. Albert Moyano of the Universitat de Barcelona added (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 3103) 8 to the unsaturated aldehyde 7 to give the β-amino acid precursor 9. Eugenia Marqués-López and Mathias Christmann, now at Freie Universität Berlin effected (Synthesis 2013, 45, 1016) the intramolecular Michael cyclization of 10 to give 11. Delong Liu and Wanbin Zhang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University showed (Synthesis 2013, 45, 1612) that 12 and 13 could be combined to give the cyclopentane 14. Ismail Ibrahem and Armando Córdova of Mid Sweden University combined (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 6050) 15 and 16 to give 17, with good control of the quaternary center. Kamal Nain Singh of Panjab University prepared (Synthesis 2013, 45, 1406) a proline-derived sulfoxide that mediated the addition of cyclohexanone 18 to 19. Intramolecular aldehyde alkylation is underdeveloped as a synthetic method. David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University established (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 9358) a single-electron transfer variant, cyclizing 21 to 22. Arianna Quintavalla of the University of Bologna effected (Adv. Synth. Catal. 2013, 355, 938) the double addition of nitromethane 24 to 23 to give 25. John Cong-Gui Zhao of the University of Texas at San Antonio reported (Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 1666; J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 4153) parallel results (not pictured) with aryl enones as the acceptors. Bor-Cherng Hong of the National Chung Cheng University condensed (Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 2472) 26 with the alcohol 27 to give 28. Again, good control of the quaternary center was observed. Marc C. Kimber of Loughborough University used (J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 3476) an organocatalyst to rearrange the prochiral endoperoxide 29 to the hydroxy enone, to which malonate 30 was added to give 31.