General methods of alkaloid synthesis. X
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Robert V. Stevens; Yuhshi Luh
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Article
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1977
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Elsevier Science
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French
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## Recently, we reported' the total synthesis of (*)-isoretronecanol (1) and (+)-8-coniceine (2). A key step in each of these syntheses utilized the acid-catalyzed rearrangement of a cyclopropylimine to generate the 3-phenylthio-2-pyrroline synthon (2). The latter intermediate serves as a relative