A formal [3+2] cycloaddition between aziridines and alkenes to give the corresponding pyrrolidines was successfully carried out in the presence of a cationic manganese porphyrin catalyst. The use of the porphyrin catalyst allowed, for the first time, styrene derivatives to react with aziridines.
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Kurahashi et al. (2013) studied this question.