A new type of donor-acceptor cyclopropane has been prepared from commercially available cyclopropane-1,1-diesters. This cyclopropanereacts with triflic anhydride to produce an isolable tristrifloxy intermediate which when treated with primary amines gives 6-trifloxy-7-azaindolineswhich in turn can be dehydrogenated to the azaindoles. The 6-trifloxy substituent can be used to introduce diversity at this position via avariety of cross-coupling reactions thus preparing potentially interesting compounds based on the important 7-azaindole pharmacophore.