We previously reported the geminal carbo-functionalization reaction of alkynes on treatment of 3-siloxy-1,3-dien-7-ynes 1 with [W(CO) 6 ] or [ReCl (CO) 5 ] under photoirradiation to give bicyclo[3.3.0]octane derivatives 2 in good yield (Scheme 1). [1] The reaction was thought to proceed through nucleophilic attack of the silyl enol ether moiety to the electrophilically activated alkyne followed by attack of the generated alkenyl metallic species A to the a,b-unsaturated silyloxonium moiety at the position b to the metal to give bicyclic carbene complex intermediate B, which gave the product through 1,2-hydrogen shift with regeneration of the catalyst. [2] We then thought of the possibility of carrying out a similar geminal carbofunctionalization reaction by employing one-carbon-atom elongated substrates (3-siloxy-1,3-dien-8-ynes 3) with the expectation that 5-exo attack of the silyl enol ether moiety followed by ring closure (geminal carbo-functionalization) would give bicyclo[3.3.0]octane derivative D having a carbene complex moiety as a substituent on the bridgehead carbon atom. As there is no a-hydrogen atom at the carbene complex moiety, 1,2-hydrogen shift is not possible and the behavior of this intermediate is intriguing (Scheme 1). We now report that 1,2-alkyl migration [3] occurred at the generated carbene moiety to give ring-expanded products by employing 3siloxy-1,3-dien-8-yne derivatives as substrates, to stereoselectively obtain synthetically useful bicyclo[4.3.0]nonane derivatives, whose configuration was different from that of the Diels-Alder adduct.We first examined the reaction of 3-siloxy-1,3-dien-8-yne 3 a with the geometry of the silyl enol ether moiety as (Z) [4] by using various electrophilic transition-metal catalysts. Although [W(CO) 5 (thf)] or [ReCl(CO) 5 ] gave the products in reasonable yield (45 % and 78 %, respectively), [5] the cationic gold catalyst gave the best result. Thus, treatment of 3 a with 10 mol % of [AuClPPh 3 ]/AgSbF 6 [6] in the presence of molecular sieves (4 ) gave bicyclo[4.3.0]nonane derivative 4 a, a formal [4+2] cycloadduct, as a single stereoisomer in 92 % yield (Scheme 2). [7,8] Interestingly, the configuration of the product was different from that of the thermal Diels-Alder adduct 5 obtained stereoselectively by heating a solution of (Z)-3 a in toluene for 1.5 h. [9] Thus, two diastereoisomers [10] of the same bicyclo[4.3.0]nonane derivative were obtained selectively by choosing Au I -catalyzed or thermal conditions. Next, we examined the reaction of 3-siloxy-1,3-dien-8-yne derivative 3 a with the geometry of the silyl enol ether moiety as (E) [4] under thermal and Au I -catalyzed conditions (Scheme 2). In this case, (E)-3 a did not undergo thermal Scheme 1. Tandem cyclization of dienol silyl ethers.Scheme 2. Au I -catalyzed and thermal cyclization of dienynes 3 a. E = CO 2 Me; TIPS = triisopropylsilyl; M.S. = molecular sieves; DCE = dichloroethane.