Dynamic kinetic resolution has become a useful method for the diastereoselective and enantioselective synthesis of organic compounds.[1] Dynamic kinetic resolution, presented in Equation (1) (Scheme 1), in its most common form results in greater than 50 % conversion of a mixture of stereoisomers into products enriched in one enantiomer or diastereoisomer. [2] Most dynamic kinetic resolutions require rapidly equilibrating enantiomeric starting materials that undergo a slower second step, in which the enantiomers react with enantiomerically enriched reagents at different rates (k 1R ¼ 6 k 1S ; Scheme 1, Eq. (1)). Conceptually, it is difficult to imagine how starting materials that are not directly susceptible to enantiomerization, such as molecules where the only chirality present is in all-carbon quaternary stereocenters, could take part in dynamic kinetic resolutions. However, if a molecule incapable of direct enantiomerization were to undergo a cascade reaction (a reaction comprising one or more intermediates) and if any one of the intermediates in the reaction was capable of epimerization or enantiomerization (I 1 , Scheme 1, Eq. (2)), then dynamic kinetic resolution could be achieved. Furthermore, equilibration of stereoisomers in dynamic kinetic resolutions is most often achieved by proton transfer, [3] addition-elimination reactions, [4] oxidation-reduction reactions, [5] or isomerization of configurationally labile carbanions, [6] whereas equilibration between stereoisomers containing all-carbon quaternary stereocenters can only be achieved through reversible CÀC bond-forming reactions, which have rarely been used so far in dynamic kinetic resolutions. Therefore, it may be possible to generate complex structures as single stereoisomers from a racemic starting material and an enantiopure reagent by developing cascade reactions with dynamic kinetic resolutions. Despite the potential of this concept, there are few examples of cascade reactions that incorporate dynamic kinetic resolution, especially ones involving the formation of multiple CÀC bonds. [7] Herein, we report on dyanmic-kinetic-resolution cascade reactions that occur with racemic starting materials that contain all-carbon quaternary stereocenters.During our synthesis of CP-263,114, we developed a diastereoselective cascade reaction comprising an alkylation, an anion-accelerated oxy-Cope rearrangement, and a transannular Dieckmann-like cyclization.[8] Using this latter reaction, we synthesized a wide range of complex polycyclic bridgehead enone compounds (Scheme 2).[9] The possible participation of intermediate 2 in a retro-aldol/aldol equilibrium and the consequences of this equilibrium on the transfer of stereochemistry from C2 of 1 to the product 4 was of particular interest to us (Scheme 3).[10]The occurance of the retro-aldol/aldol equilibration during the cascade reaction was tested with b-ketoester 5, which was prepared in 99 % ee by the enantioselective reduction of the corresponding racemate with the CoreyBakshi-Shibata (CBS) catalyst and...