The structurally diverse and complex family of compounds that have bridged oxa/aza-[n.2.1] and oxa/aza-[n.3.1] skeletons (n = 2, 3, 4) widely occurs in nature and exhibits a broad range of biological activities (Scheme 1). Additionally, such bridged skeletons can also be used as key intermediates in organic synthesis because of their inherent stereochemistry and multiple functionalizable sites. [1] A general strategy for the construction of medium-sized carbocycles may be provided by CÀO or CÀN bond cleavage in bridged skeletons (Scheme 2). [2][3][4][5] As important substructures that are prevalent in natural products, cis-2,5-disubstituted tetrahydrofuran/ pyrrolidine and cis-2,6-disubstituted tetrahydropyran/piperidine may also be obtained by CÀC bond cleavage (Scheme 2). The development of a general strategy to construct such differently bridged skeletons is important for both the synthesis of natural products and the construction of structurally diverse molecular libraries for chemical biology and the discovery of pharmaceutical and agrochemical leads.Cycloaddition and domino reactions belong to the most efficient and direct transformations of cyclic skeletons. Although various cycloaddition and domino reactions have been developed for construction of such bridged skeletons, [6,7] most of them focus on the synthesis of one type or one subclass of the big and structurally diverse family of [n.2.1] and [n.3.1] skeletons, and development of a more general, efficient, and conceptually new strategy still remains important and challenging.Alkynylcyclopropane (ACP) ketone has recently been introduced as a useful all-carbon 1,4-dipole. Zhang and Schmalz reported a Lewis acid (LA) catalyzed domino cycloisomerization/nucleophilic ring-opening process of ACP ketones. [8] Subsequently Zhang and co-workers developed a gold-catalyzed intermolecular [4+2] cycloaddition of ACP ketones with alkenes, carbonyl compounds, and imines. [9a] Some other types of cycloadditions have also been successfully developed by Zhang and co-workers, and by our research group. [10] We have recently developed a general strategy for construction of bridged oxa-and aza-[n.2.1] skeletons and have successfully applied it to the total synthesis of platensimycin and bruguierol. [11,12] We also described a novel intramolecular cross-cycloaddition reaction (IMCC) on two types of functionalized cyclopropanes, which were used as all-carbon 1,3-dipoles. We hoped to apply this IMCC on ACP ketone to develop a [4+2] IMCC as a general strategy for construction of oxa-and aza-[n.3.1] skeletons (Scheme 3). Moreover, the difference between p-electrophilic (p-LAs) and s-electrophilic (s-LAs) LAs was consid-Scheme 1. Representative natural products containing oxa-/aza-[n.2.1] or oxa-/aza-[n.3.1] skeletons. Scheme 2. Oxa-/aza-[n.2.1] or oxa-/aza-[n.3.1] skeletons used as key intermediates in organic synthesis. FG = functional group.