The potent, naturally occurring immunomodulators (-)-rapamycin (1) and (-)-27-demethoxyrapamycin (2) have been synthesized via a unified and highly convergent strategy. In the preceding paper we discussed the construction of common building blocks A-C and their linkage to provide the C(21-42) segments of 1 and 2. Herein we describe model studies of triene generation and hydroxyl deprotection, t...
