Concise synthesis of the bacterial DNA primase inhibitor (+) -Sch 642305.

[structure: see text]. A highly convergent, enantioselective synthesis of (+) -Sch 642305 is presented, which features a Mukaiyama-Michael addition followed by allylation to establish the syn-anti relationship of the three contiguous stereocenters. The 10-membered macrolactone was formed through ring-closing metathesis.