“…To our delight, the ring closure product turned out solely as an 8 E stereoisomer, thus adding to the robustness of Heck cross-coupling in macrocycle synthesis. 46–51 Final removal of the TBS group led smoothly to 8 in 90% yield. Advancing to the second stage (Scheme 1), 8 reacted separately with different acyl donors such as acid anhydrides (for 9a and 9d ), acyl chlorides (for 9b and 9c ), and carboxylic acids (for 9e–9n ), under three coupling conditions (see the table inset in Scheme 1; also refer to the experimental section for synthetic details).…”