This paper is dedicated to Professor Dieter Enders on the occasion of his70thbirthday. He has always been a source of inspiration to develop new cascade reactions. Abstract We present a formal [3+2] cycloaddition based on synergistic catalysis. Vinylcyclopropanes derived from cyanoesters react with enals by dual activation using palladium(0) and secondary amines to form the corresponding cyclopentanes