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We describe herein a highly diastereoselective total synthesis of racemic s
itophilate, based on the results obtained in a diastereoselective heterogen
eous catalytic hydrogenation reaction of a set of Baylis-Hillman adducts or
iginating from aliphatic aldehydes. (C) 2001 Published by Elsevier Science
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