in recognition of his seminal contributionst os omany aspects of organicchemistry.Abstract: An efficient total synthesis of (+ +)-petromyroxol, am arine naturalp roduct, is described. The synthesisu tilizes the Sharpless asymmetric dihydroxylation (AD), intramolecular S N 2c yclization and stereoselective Grignard reaction as key steps.The 2,5-disubstituted-3-oxygenated THF motif is found abundantly in biologically active natural products. [1] Petromyroxol (1), iso-petromyroxol (2), [2] trans-(À)-kumausyne( 3), trans-(+ +)-deacetylkumausyne (4), [3] and anthelmintic oxylipid( 5), [4] marine natural products, are few examples of dihydroxytetrahydrofurans from the acetogenin family [5] (Figure 1).The dihydroxylated THF enantiomers( + +)-petromyroxol [2a] and iso-petromyroxol [2b] were recently isolated by Li and coworkers from water conditioned with larvae of the sea lamprey, Petromyzon marinus L.,w hich is the first example of dihydroxylated THF-containingm etabolites isolated from av ertebrate. [2]