Thermal reactions of the a,bunsaturated Fischer carbene complexes 3 ± 5 with the siloxydienes 6 and 7 mainly furnished the expected cyclohepta-1,4-dienes such as 9, 10, 12, 14, and 15, whose formation is explained by a formal [21] cycloaddition followed by Cope rearrangement. The rather electron-rich carbene complex 5 also afforded the cyclopentene derivatives 11 and 16 as by-products, which are probably formed by two distinct mechanisms. Single diastereomers of the cyclopentene derivatives 17 and 18 were isolated as the exclusive products of the reactions of 3 and 4, respectively, with the donor/ acceptor-substituted 1,3-diene 8. This process is interpreted as a metalla Diels ± Alder reaction to form a chromacyclohexene intermediate 25, which subsequently undergoes fragmentation to give cyclopentene derivatives with the required constitution. Most surprisingly, the reactions of simple carbene complexes 1 or 2 with the siloxydienes 7 or 8 yielded cyclopentene derivatives 19 and 20 that do not contain the carbene ligand of the precursor complexes. Instead, the constitution of the isolated products can be accounted for by a formal diene dimerization with fragmentation of a methylene unit. Their formation can be interpreted by an unprecedented sequence of carbene-ligand metathesis followed by a metalla Diels ± Alder reaction and reductive fragmentation. All these results illustrate the great importance of electronic fine-tuning in the precursors involved in reactions of Fischer carbene complexes with 1,3-dienes.