Total Synthesis of Nominal Lyngbouilloside Aglycon

The first enantioselective total synthesis of the originally assigned structure of lyngbouilloside aglycon has been achieved using a particularly flexible route featuring an acylketene macrolactonization of a tertiary methyl carbinol as the key step. Comparison of the C13 chemical shifts of our synthetic aglycon with the ones pertaining to natural lyngbouilloside and lyngbyaloside C resulted in a possible stereochemical reassignment of the C11 stereogenic center.