A Short Total Synthesis of Kuehneromycin A This work was generously supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fazit-Stiftung. We are grateful to Prof. W. Steglich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, for copies of spectra of natural kuehneromycin A and for recording 600 MHz (1)H NMR spectra of our synthetic sample. We thank BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany, Pfizer AG, Karlsruhe, Germany, Haarmann & Reimer GmbH, Holzminden, Germany, Wacker GmbH, Burghausen, Germany, DEGUSSA AG, Frankfurt a. M., Germany and Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany, for chemicals and laboratory equipment.