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Abstract
The spirotetronate okilactomycin D (7) has been efficiently synthesized by a route featuring a substrate-controlled, diastereoselective (8:1) intramolecular Diels–Alder (IMDA) reaction of 11. The assigned absolute configuration of (−)-7 was confirmed.