Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
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A New Synthetic Method of Codeine from Thebaine
Michihiro Yamada
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1962 Volume 10 Issue 9 Pages 871-872

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Abstract
Treatment of 14-bromocodeinone, prepared from thebaine, with zinc-dust in glacial acetic acid gave codeinone, m. p.181-182°. Codeinone was quantitatively reduced to codeine with sodium borohydride.
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