Two routes to the pyrrolizidine alkaloid (-)-integerrimhe (1) are described. The first, starting from methyl (R)-(-)-3-hydroxy-2-methylpropionate, proceeded in 19 steps to integerrinecic acid lactone (5) which was transformed to the necic acid derivative 30. The latter was coupled to protected retronecine 31, and the synthesis of 1 was completed by lactonization employing Vedejs' protocol. A second, shorter synthesis of (-)-1 was accomplished via 5, ...