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A concise assembly of the central tetrahydropyran unit of aflastatin A featuring a Pd-mediated alkynone cycloisomerization to provide a glycal and its subsequent stereoselective hydroboration to deliver the requisite stereochemistry at C(33) and C(34) centers is documented.
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