“…A number of procedures have been reported for the preparation of both natural (-)-(R)- [1,[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30] and synthetic (+)-(S)-massoia lactone [1, 21, 23-25, 28, 31], but the use of these procedures is restricted because of expensive reagents [7,14,26], low selectivity [6,10,11,22,25], enzymatic transformations [1,9,16,24], and large number of steps [3,27,29]. The present article describes a stereoselective synthesis of (-)-(6R)-massoia lactone with the use of methyl 3-[(tributylstannyl)methyl]but-3-enoate (V) as C 5 -allylic building block, which is available from ethyl 3,3-diethoxypropionate (VI) in five preparative steps (Scheme 1) [32,33].…”