Abstract Two biomimetic approaches have been used to synthesize analogs of the SHIP1- activating sponge meroterpenoid pelorol (1). One approach started from the chiral pool plant natural product sclareolide, which has the same absolute configuration as pelorol. The second approach utilized an enantioselective polyene cyclization to efficiently access both absolute configurations of the pelorol meroterpenoid skeleton and to prepare A-ring ...
