Abstract
From a chiral C4-epoxide (-)-3, which is one of the synthons in our synthetic strategy for complex lipids, a glycerophospholipid C16-platelet activating factor (C16-PAF, 1) and a palmitoyl analogue (2) of an anti-inflammatory glyceroglycolipid M-5, which was previously isolated from the Okinawan marine sponge Phyllospongia foliascens, have been synthesized.