“…2-Pyrone not only occurs very frequently in natural products isolated from plants, animals, marine sources, and microorganisms but also appears quite often in biologically and pharmaceutically active synthetic molecules. − A 2-pyrone skeleton with different substitution patterns is known to possess a wide range of biological activities such as antimicrobial, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, anti-HIV, and anticancer . Further, with its unique electronically biased unsaturated cyclic system, it has been utilized as a versatile building block in organic synthesis especially as a diene component in Diels–Alder reactions . As a result, considerable attention has been devoted to access diversely functionalized pyrone compounds by employing different methods .…”