Scheme 8.
Miscellaneous approaches to the synthesis of naturally occurring TBD antibiotics: (a) Danishefsky’s intramolecular lactonic Claisen rearrangement enabled total synthesis of (−)-equisetin (37);54 (b) Barriault’s oxy-Cope/ene/Claisen rearrangement approach to the TBD framework of (−)-tetrodecamycin (59);58 (c) Tatsuta’s SmI2-mediated radical cyclization process to (−)-tetrodecamycin (59).59