The first total synthesis of the antimalarial alkaloid dioncophylline B (2) from Triphyophyllum peltatum (Dioncophyllaceae), and thus the first preparation of a 7,6′-coupled naphthylisoquinoline, is described. Key steps within this synthesis are the ortho-functionalization of the MOM-protected naphthalene and isoquinoline moieties 14 and 7 by directed ortho-metalation, with subsequent stannylation