“…Depending on the taxonomy, the diversified structures of the Daphniphyllum alkaloids can be categorized into 13-35 subfamilies 1,4,7 . To date, about 20 elegant total syntheses of the Daphniphyllum alkaloids, from seven subfamilies, have been reported by the research groups of Heathcock [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] , Carreira 16 , Li [17][18][19][20] , Smith 21,22 , Hanessian 23 , Fukuyama/Yokoshima 24 , Zhai 25 , Dixon 26 , Qiu 27 , Gao 28 , and Sarpong 29,30 groups, respectively. Moreover, our group has recently accomplished the asymmetric total syntheses of himalensine A 31 , dapholdhamine B 32 , and caldaphnidine O 33 .…”