Pancratistatin (PST, Scheme 1) is a natural compound that was first isolated [1] from Spider Lily, a plant native to Hawaii that belongs to the Amaryllidaceae family. As well as antiviral and antiparasitic activities, PST has very strong antitumor activity. [2] Furthermore, PST can act as an antitumor secondary metabolite that can induce apoptosis in tumor cells by targeting their mitochondria while leaving normal cells unaffected. [3] Therefore, as well as being a challenging compound to synthetic chemists, a facile large-scale synthesis of PST and its analogs would be of great importance in pharmaceutical sciences. [4,5] However, despite many attempts to synthesize PST and its analogs (various epimers and/or deoxy derivatives, Scheme 1), [4g,h,j] a practical and scalable synthesis of from readily available starting compounds has remained elusive.We have been engaged in the total syntheses of naturally occurring branched-chain cyclitol compounds, such as cyclophellitol, mytillitol, laminitol, and (À)-tetrodotoxin (TTX), [6] by using d-glucose as the starting material. Herein, we describe the concise stereoselective total synthesis of (+)-PST from d-glucose, which features both inter-and intramolecular Henry reactions [7] (nitroaldol reactions) as key transformations. As shown in the retrosynthetic plan (Scheme 2), the key intermediate C-aryl nitrocyclitol B can be prepared from D by the intramolecular [a] Assoc. Scheme 1. Pancratistatin (PST) and its related compounds. Scheme 2. Retrosynthetic analysis of (+)-PST from d-glucose featuring an intramolecular Henry reaction.