Concise large-scale synthesis of psilocin and psilocybin, principal hallucinogenic constituents of “Magic Mushroom”
O Shirota, W Hakamata, Y Goda
Index: Shirota, Osamu; Hakamata, Wataru; Goda, Yukihiro Journal of Natural Products, 2003 , vol. 66, # 6 p. 885 - 887
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Abstract
The concise large-scale syntheses of psilocin (1) and psilocybin (2), the principal hallucinogenic constituents of “magic mushroom”, were achieved without chromatographic purification. The key step in the synthesis of 2 was the isolation of the dibenzyl-protected intermediate (7) as a zwitterionic derivative (8), which was completely identified by means of 2D NMR analyses.
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