Recently, Singh et al. have reported 1 the isolation of two natural products, aspercyclides (Fig. 1, a and b), from the fungal metabolites and claimed that these natural products (a and b) possess several important biological activities. 2 The natural products aspercyclides consist of an eleven-membered lactone moiety that is flanked by differently substituted diaryl ether lactone. Subsequently, Furstner and Muller 3 achieved the total synthesis of “aspercyclide ...