Has a nice ring to it: A concise and modular total synthesis of the naturally occurring antibiotic virginiamycin M2 is described. A Barbier-type cyclization was used to close the 23-membered macrocycle and deliver virginiamycin M2 in 19 steps from a chiral organosilane.
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