An operationally convenient, one-pot, three-step sequence has been developed that provides access to 3-substituted 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7-azaindolines (2, 3-dihydro-1 H- pyrollopyridines) via intramolecular carbolithiation of the aryllithium derived from an appropriate (N, N-diallylamino) bromopyridine. Whereas cyclization proceeds as expected to give 1-allyl-3-methyl-4-azaindoline and 1-allyl-3-methyl-6-azaindoline following ...