The synthesis of the aromatic segment 4 was achieved starting from commercially available 5-hydroxyisophthalic acid (6) by utilizing Claisen rearrangement of 9, bromolactonization of 12, and modified Curtius rearrangement of 16 as the key steps. Furthermore, the optically active aliphatic segments 5 and ent-5 were synthesized in enantiomerically pure forms starting with natural (2R,3R)- and unnatural