This short review describes paths to superphanes with metal-stabilized cyclobutadiene and cyclopentadienone rings in a one-pot and stepwise fashion. The stepwise synthesis also led to a new class of belt-like systems with large rings composed of CpCo-stabilized cyclobutadiene rings connected with propane chains. Finally, our research yielded the first beltenes composed of alternating four-and eight-membered conjugated rings.A superphane is a phane in which all hydrogen atoms of the cyclic conjugated rings are tethered by bridges. This definition goes back to Boekelheide and Hopf [1]. So far, a number of superphanes with benzene rings, heterocycles, and metal-stabilized π-systems have been prepared [2]. Our affair with superphanes started with the reaction of cyclodeca-1,6-diyne 1 with CpCoL 2 , which afforded in a onepot reaction the superphane 2 (Scheme 1) [3]. This reaction was first extended to other cyclic alkynes such as cyclotetradeca-1,8-diyne [4] and cyclooctadeca-1,10-diyne [5]. The superphanes proved to be excellent starting materials for bridged cage hydrocarbons [6] and model compounds to study the interactions between two metal centers separated by chains of different lengths [7]. This encouraged us to design also a path for a stepwise synthesis of superphanes with four-and five-membered [8-10] rings as summarized in Scheme 2. The resulting superphanes are stable at room temperature, and their molecular structures were investigated. The intermediates 5-7, which were cyclized in an intramolecular reaction to 2 and 8-11, stimulated us to look for higher oligomers.