2000 Volume 48 Issue 6 Pages 855-860
A stereoselective synthesis is described of the 18-membered lactone (2) via an efficient macrolactonization of the conformation-controlled seco-acid (3); this was designed with the aid of molecular mechanics (MM)-calculation and synthesized by coupling between the C1-C12 (4) and C13-C23 (5) fragments.