A convergent approach to highly functionalized diketopiperazines (DKPs) using enantioenriched pipecolicacids is described. Scandium triflate-catalyzed [4 + 2] aza-annulation was employed to producestereochemically well-defined building blocks. A resin "catch and release" strategy was devised to convertannulation products to pipecolic acid monomers. Complex diketopiperazines were efficiently assembledutilizing one-pot cyclodimerization of pipecolic acids. Massively parallel screening of the complex DKPsagainst a panel of molecular targets identified novel ligands for a number of G-protein-coupled receptors(GPCRs).