The behaviour of the synthetic (-)-16- (aminomethyl) eburnamenine (prepared
from apovincamine) with formaldehyde was studied. Carrying out the reactio
n in acetic acid led to an original dimer, while in trifluoroacetic acid a
12-functionalized eburnamonine was isolated, (C) 1998 Published by Elsevier
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