A simple and high-yielding method for the preparation of cyclopropane amino acids is described. The novel method involves the one-pot cyclopropanation of readily available dehydroamino acids using aryl and unsaturated diazo compounds generated in situ from the corresponding tosylhydrazone salts. It was found that thermal 1, 3-dipolar cycloaddition followed by nitrogen extrusion gave the cyclopropane amino acid derivatives with good E ...