Antiaromatic species are substantially less thermodynamically stable than aromatic moieties. Herein, we report the stabilization of two classical antiaromatic frameworks, cyclobutadiene and pentalene, by introducing one metal fragment through the first [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of a latetransition-metal carbyne with alkynes. Experimental observations and theoretical calculations reveal that the metal fragment decreases the antiaromaticity in cyclobutadiene and pentalene simultaneously, leading to air-and moisture-stable products. These molecules show broad absorption from the UV to the near-IR region, resulting in photoacoustic and photothermal effects for metalla-aromatic compounds for the first time. These results will encourage further efforts into the exploration of organometallic compounds for photoacoustic-imagingguided photothermal therapy.Aromaticity, an old but still fascinating topic in organic chemistry, has attracted continuous attention from both experimental and theoretical chemists for many decades. [1] According to the Hückel aromaticity rule, [2] cyclic species with 4n + 2 p electrons are aromatic and thus more stable than antiaromatic moieties that contain 4n p electrons. For instance, cyclobutadiene (CBD; Scheme 1, compound I) and pentalene (Scheme 1, compound II), two typical representatives of antiaromatic compounds for monocyclic and bicyclic systems, are highly unstable. [3,4] CBD, with four p electrons, is highly reactive and antiaromatic and was first captured in 1965.[3] Thereafter, the antiaromaticity and geometry of CBD have continued to intrigue computational and synthetic chemists.[5] Pentalene, the archetypal antiaromatic compound with eight p electrons, is highly unstable and was first observed in 1997 in argon matrices. [4, 6] Thus, efforts have been made to stabilize these antiaromatic species. Among various stabilizing approaches, introducing a metal fragment into the carbocycle has been an effective strategy. [7][8][9][10] A series of metallapentalenes [8, 9] and metallacyclobutadienes [10] have been realized through this strategy. However, the simultaneous stabilization of two antiaromatic systems by one metal fragment has not been reported to date. Herein, we report the stabilization of two typically antiaromatic frameworks, CBD and pentalene, by introducing a metal fragment (III in Scheme 1) through unprecedented [2+2] cycloaddition reactions of alkynes with a late-transition-metal carbyne complex. These novel metallaaromatics exhibit broad absorption and remarkable photoacoustic and photothermal properties.The treatment of osmapentalyne 1 [7] with HC CCOOH or HCCOEt in dichloromethane at room temperature afforded complexes 2 or 3, respectively (Scheme 2), which are air and moisture stable. Specifically, both of them can be stored in air at room temperature for several weeks in the solid state. The driving force for the formal [2+2] cycloaddition reaction of osmapentalyne 1 with the alkynes could be attributed to the release of the large ring strain in the fiv...