The first examples of azomethine ylides derived from allylic amine and glyoxal precursors are reported. The condensation of primary allylic and 伪-aryl amines with glyoxylates or 伪-aryl glyoxals affords conjugated azomethine ylides that undergo facile [3 + 2] cycloaddition, providing 5-alkenyl pyrrolidine cycloadducts that cannot be accessed through the classical use of amino esters as ylide precursors.