Rc. Anand et N. Selvapalam, ENANTIOSELECTIVE SYNTHESIS AND ABSOLUTE-CONFIGURATION OF (R)-(-LUNACRIDINE AND (S)-(+)-LUNACRINE()), Journal of chemical research. Synopses, (1), 1998, pp. 6-7
(R)-(+)-Lunacridine 1 has been synthesised in 97.3% e.e. using a chiro
n approach through L-valine and D-mannitol as the starting compounds i
n order to corroborate its absolute configuration.