Biaryl compounds are an important class of substances, not only as structures found in a variety of natural products, but also as a chiral source for asymmetric synthesis. A biaryl skeleton such as C is usually constructed through an aryl-aryl coupling reaction between two aromatic compounds such as D and E (Scheme 1). [1] On the other hand, a transition-metal-catalyzed [2+2+2] cocyclization of alkynes is useful for the construction of an aromatic ring.[2] Recently, we reported a conceptually new methodology for the synthesis of biaryl molecules through Ni 0 -catalyzed [2+2+2] cocyclization, by which various biaryls C were obtained in excellent yields by the [2+2+2] cocyclization of alkyne A and two molecules of acetylene or by that of diyne B and one molecule of acetylene. [3] In this context, we planned the synthesis of arylnaphthalene derivatives G through the [2+2+2] cocyclization of diyne F and an aryne (Scheme 2).Arylnaphthalene lignans occur widely in nature and exhibit various biological activities.[4] If this [2+2+2] cocyclization were to proceed between diyne 3 and aryne 2 [5][6][7][8] (derived from precursor 4 [9] ), various arylnaphthalene derivatives 1 would be synthesized in a few steps involving three CÀC bond-forming reactions (Scheme 3). Those arylnaph-