Eight potentially useful 15-, 17-, 20-, and 22-25-membered macrolides having an azine or hydrazide fragment were synthesized starting from L-menthol, tetrahydropyran, and 4-methyltetrahydropyran via [1 + 1]-condensation of hydrazine hydrate and some dicarboxylic dihydrazides with 7-oxooctyl 7-oxooctanoate, 3-methyl-7-oxooctyl 3-methyl-7-oxooctanoate, and (3R)-3,7-dimethyl-6-oxooctyl (3R)-3,7-dimethyl-6-oxooctanoate obtained by the Tishchenko reaction from 7-oxo-, 3-methyl-7-oxo, and (3R)-3,7-dimethyl-6-oxooctanals, respectively. * For preliminary communications, see [1,2].It is known [3-6] that functionalized macrocyclic compounds are widely used in organic and petrochemical synthesis, detection and separation of metals by extraction, sorption and chromatographic analytical methods, ionometry, design of cardio-and psychotropic agents and studies on mechanisms of their action, development of antimicrobial, antiparasitic, and antitumor drugs, etc.In the present article we describe efficient ways of synthesis of 15-, 17-, 20-, and 22-25-membered macrolides having an azine or hydrazide fragment starting from accessible synthetic [tetrahydropyran (I) and 4-methyltetrahydropyran (II)] and natural [L-menthol (III)] compounds. The proposed approach is based on initial transformation of cyclic substrate into the corresponding oxo aldehydes, 7-oxo-, 3-methyl-7-oxo-, and (3R)-3,7-dimethyl-6-oxooctanals IV-VI, according to the procedure reported in [1,2], and their subsequent Tishchenko disproportionation to give dioxo esters VII-IX.[1+1]-Condensation of the latter with hydrazine hydrate or malonic, succinic, glutaric, and adipic acid dihydrazides in strongly dilute dioxane solution at room temperature, followed by treatment of the reaction mixture with methylene chloride-hexane (1 : 10), afforded 40-54% of macrolides having a ketone azine (X, XI) or bis-hydrazide fragment (XII-XVII), respectively (Schemes 1, 2).The structure of macrocyclic compounds X-XVII was determined by IR spectroscopy and 1 H and 13 C NMR; according to the HPLC data, their purity was ~95%. The NMR spectra of X-XVII were analyzed by comparing with the spectra of initial compounds, dioxo esters VII-IX and dicarboxylic acid dihydrazides. The 13 C NMR spectra of compounds XI and XVII lacked signals of carbonyl carbon atoms (δ C 214.13 and 214.42 ppm) and methylene and methine groups in the α-position to the carbonyl group (δ C 35.08, 37.53 ppm), which were typical of initial dioxo ester IX. In addition, no hydrazide NH 2 signal was observed in the 1 H NMR spectrum of macrocycle XVII (δ 4.75 ppm in the spectrum of the initial hydrazide). These findings indicate that the products have cyclic structure rather than the structure of acyclic substitution products. The 13 C NMR spectrum of XI, apart from the singlet at δ C 170.64 ppm (ester carbonyl carbon atom), contained a singlet at δ C 169.24 ppm due to C=N carbon atoms, which is consistent with the formation of macrocycle possessing an azine fragment.Compound XVII displayed in the 13 C NMR spectrum a signal ...