The totalsyntheses of (−)-cylindrocyclophane A (1), a naturally occurring, cytotoxic [7.7]paracyclophane, and its enantiomer have been achieved in an enantiodivergent manner starting from a chiral propargyl alcohol building block using Smith's cross metathesis/ring-closing metathesis protocol as the key step. The biologicalevaluation of bothenantiomers of cylindrocyclophane A (1 and ent-1) and its