“…1 Their highly congested, polycyclic architectures have long provided organic chemists with challenging targets for development of innovative synthetic strategies and methodologies, resulting in a number of elegant total syntheses (Figure 1). 2,3 For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, Heathcock and co-workers completed several remarkable syntheses of daphniphylline-type, secodaphniphyllinetype, bukittinggine-type, and daphnilactone A-type alkaloids. 4 More recently, many prominent total syntheses of daphmani-din A-type, calyciphylline A-type, and calyciphylline B-type alkaloids have been reported by the groups of Carreira, 5 Li, 6 Smith, 7 Fukuyama, 8 Hanessian, 9 Dixon, 10 Zhai, 11 Qiu, 12 Xu,13a Gao, 14 and Sarpong.…”