The construction of the stannane fragment (3-4) commenced with an iodination of 6-methylcyclohexenone (5-2), which was readily prepared by our laboratory's previously reported scalable ozonolytic fragmentation of dihydrocarvone, to form known iodo-enone 5-3 in 67% yield (Scheme 5B). A moderately diastereoselective aldol reaction between the lithium enolate of 5-3 and 3-furaldehyde (4-3) revealed an intermediate alcohol with 6:1 dr, which could be acylated in a separate operation to provide acetate 5-4 in 61% yield over two steps. Treatment of 5-4 with KOt-Bu furnished an intermediate alcohol, which was dehydrated in the presence of thionyl chloride and pyridine. Subjection of the resulting vinyl iodide intermediate to Pd-catalyzed stannylation could lead to the stannane fragment (3-4) in 25% yield over three steps.