GaCl3 has been found to efficiently catalyze the formal cycloadditions of diazene derivatives 6 onto 2-arylcyclopropane-1, 1-dicarboxylates 5, giving rise to the pyrazolidine derivatives 7. The insertion into the cyclopropane ring proceeds with complete regioselectivity to furnish 5- arylpyrazolidine-1, 2, 3, 3-tetracarboxylates exclusively; however, the cis-configured azo compound N-phenyltriazolinedione gave the two possible regioisomeric pyrazolidine ...