The ezomycins are Streptomyces-derived antifungal natural products, belonging to the complex peptidyl nucleoside family of antibiotics. Employing d-serine as a chiral platform, we report herein a novel synthetic route to the bicyclic octosyl nucleoside core of the
[Ferreira, Paula M.T.; Maia, Hernani L.S.; Monteiro, Luis S.; Sacramento, Joana Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1, 1999 , # 24 p. 3697 - 3703]