Total syntheses of the antimicrobial tricyclic 16-membered macrolides, (+)-tubelactomicin B,(+)-tubelactomicin D, and (+)-tubelactomicin E, have been accomplished for the first time with common synthetic approaches. These total syntheses established the relative and absolute configurations ofthe three tubelactomicins, for which planar structures had solely been reported. The total synthesis of(+)-tubelactomicin D included a newly developed stereoselective intramolecular Diels-Alder reactionfor constructing the highly functionalized octahydronaphthalene substructures.