A short and convergent synthesis of jerangolid D is described. As key steps, a Blaise reaction is employed to construct the lactone ring, a diastereoselective multicomponent Sakurai condensation leads to the dihydropyran ring, and the skipped diene is assembled using a modified Julia olefination.
Pospisil, J., & Marko, I. (2007). Total synthesis of jerangolid D. Journal of the American chemical society, 129(12), 3516-3517. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0691728 (Original work published 2007)