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A Pyrolytic Route to the Phthalide-Isoquinolines
Elango, Varadaraj,Shamma, Maurice
, p. 4879 - 4881 (1983)
Pyrolysis of 8,13-dioxo-14-methoxycanadine (5) yields methyl keto ester 11 (35percent), aromatic phthalide-isoquinoline 12 (15percent), and (+)-chilenine (13, 7percent).Methyl keto ester 11 can be reduced quantitatively to 12 with sodium borhydride.Cataly
