First total syntheses and spectral data corrections of 11-alpha-methoxycurvularin and 11-beta-methoxycurvularin.

Concise and efficient total syntheses of 11-alpha-methoxycurvularin and 11-beta-methoxycurvularin were accomplished for the first time. The three-component linchpin coupling and intramolecular acylation reactions were key steps, in which we found the spectral data of 11-alpha-methoxycurvularin and 11-beta-methoxycurvularin, reported in the literature, were reversed with each other.