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IN his theory of the phytochemical synthesis of alkaloids published in 1917, Robinson1 suggested that hygrine (I) and cuscohygrine (II) were formed by the condensation of acetone dicarboxylic acid, with one and with two molecular proportions respectively of γ-methylaminobutyraldehyde.
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ANET, E., HUGHES, G. & RITCHIE, E. Syntheses of Hygrine and Cuscohygrine. Nature 163, 289 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163289a0
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