Au nified strategy for the chemical synthesis of the chivosazoles is described. This strategy is based on two closely related approaches involving the late-stage installation of the isomerization-prone (2Z,4E,6Z,8E)-tetraenoate motif,a nd an expedient fragment-assembly procedure.The result is ahighly convergent total synthesis of chivosazole Fthrough the orchestration of three mild Pd/Cu-mediated Stille cross-coupling reactions,i ncluding the use of ao ne-pot, site-selective,t hreecomponent process,incombination with controlled installation of the requisite alkene geometry.Thechivosazoles (Scheme 1) are astructurally unique family of bioactive polyene macrolides,w hich were first isolated by Hçfle and Reichenbach from the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum.[1] They show highly potent antiproliferative activity against cancer cell lines and have been proposed to function by inhibiting actin polymerization through specific binding to G-actin, thereby leading to disruption of cytoskeletal dynamics.While actin is increasingly being recognized as ap otential target protein in cancer chemotherapy, [2] the chivosazoles exhibit little structural homology with other known actin-binding ligands.[3] As ar esult, the exact binding site and mode of action of the chivosazoles are likely to be distinct, thus making them an intriguing chemotype for studying the actin cytoskeleton, as well as ap romising antimicrofilament lead candidate for drug discovery.From the perspective of molecular architecture,t he chivosazoles display an extraordinary array of features.T he signature 31-membered macrolactone ring features ten stereocenters,a no xazole moiety,a nd nine alkenes arranged in three distinct conjugated polyene arrays with diagnostic alternating E/Z geometry.[4] Thes ix known members of the family differ in the substitution in the 6-deoxyglucopyranoside appended at C11 and the C20 position, with chivosazole F(1)corresponding to the aglycon of chivosazole A(2). Despite,o rp ossibly because of,t heir complex and delicate nature,t here have been limited synthetic efforts reported toward the chivosazoles.N otably,t he first total synthesis of chivosazole Fw as achieved by Kalessesg roup, [5a,b] which served to validate their earlier configurational assignment. [4] Scheme 1. Retrosynthetic analysis of the chivosazoles, highlightingthe key fragments for site-selectiveStille cross-coupling reactions. The same bond disconnections are used in Approaches Iand II but their ordering in the forward synthetic sense is different. HWE = HornerWadsworth-Emmons, TBS = tert-butyldimethylsilyl, TES = triethylsilyl.