Studies in the Total Synthesis of Heliquinomycinone: Proof of Concept and Assembly of a Fully Mature Spirocyclization Precursor This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (Grant numbers: AI 16943 and HL25848). A Postdoctoral Fellowship is gratefully acknowledged by R.X.R. (NIH, Grant Number IF32EY06750-0181). The authors thank Dr. Daniel Chen for important initial experiments, Dr. Brian Bridgewater and Prof. Ged Parkin of Columbia University for X-ray crystal structure analysis of 11 a, and Yashuiro Itagaki for high-resolution mass spectral analyses.