| abstract |
Process for the preparation of tropane alkaloids, more particularly of N-acyl-dehydronortropinones, dehydrotropine and tropine. The compounds can be prepared by cyclocoupling N-acyl-pyrrole with α,α'-halogenoketone in the presence of a reducing agent and, if necessary, subjecting the resulting N-acyl-dehydronortropinone to either partial reduction and then stereo-selective reduction, or stereo-selective reduction and then partial reduction. |