Sattazolin is a natural product produced by the soil bacteria Bacillus sp. along with other structurally related acyloins sattabacin and 4-hydroxysattabacin. Our research group has previously reported the asymmetric total syntheses of sattabacin and 4-hydroxysattabacin, while the total synthesis of sattazolin had not been reported. Further, the isolation chemists reported an optical rotation for sattazolin but failed to determine the absolute configuration...