“…The size, stereochemical complexity, and biological activities of amphidinolides F, C, C2, and C3, have made them attractive targets for total synthesis and stimulated the development of new strategies and synthetic methods that permit rapid access to key subunits found in these natural products. Over the past two decades, substantial portions of all four compounds have been synthesized by the groups of Kobayashi (C1–C10; C17–C29), Armstrong (C18–C29), Carter (C7–C20), Dai (C18–C26), Ferrié (C1–C9), Forsyth (C1–C9; C11–C25; C1–C14; C15–C25), Mohapatra (C1–C9; C19–C34), Morken (C1–C15), Pagenkopf (C1–C9; C18–C34), Roush (C1–C9; C11–C29), Spilling (C1–C9; C18–C29; C18–C34), and Williams (C10–C25) . These meticulous and extensive synthetic studies have culminated in the recent total syntheses of amphidinolides F and C by the groups of Fürstner and Carter , and the total syntheses of amphidinolides F and C2 by the group of Ferrié …”