The nitrile oxide functional group is a well-known 1,3dipole and highly useful owing to its high reactivity toward unsaturated CÀC bonds to furnish [32] cycloadducts. [1] In addition to such a traditional role, we have found that it also functions as an enophile [2] in an intramolecular reaction with an allyltrimethylsilyl group. [3] 5-Methylene-6-(trimethylsilyl)hexanal oxime (1 a) was treated with sodium hypochlorite [4] in dichloromethane at 0 8C for 2 h to give the product of an enelike reaction (2 a) in 82 % yield as a single diastereomer; no fused a-methylene-g-butyrolactam, we explored the cyclocarbonylation of d-allenyl imine 3 and examined the stereochemistry of the resulting products (Scheme 4). We observed only the cis-fused a-methylene-g-butyrolactam 4 as the sole product, which supports a [2 2 1] cycloaddition. The cis stereochemistry of 4 was clearly determined by NOE interactions in NOESY experiments (see Supporting Information).Scheme 4. The cyclocarbonylation of d-allenyl imine 3 gave cis-fused amethylene-g-butyrolactam 4 as the sole product.