Morphine total synthesis in chemistry describes the total synthesis of the alkaloid morphine. The first synthesis by Marshall D. Gates, Jr. in 1952 is considered a classic in the field.[1][2]
Several other syntheses were reported, notably by the research groups of Rice,[3] Evans,[4] Fuchs,[5] Parker,[6] Overman,[7] Mulzer-Trauner,[8] White,[9] Taber,[10] Trost,[11] Fukuyama,[12] Guillou[13] and Stork.[14]
Gates' total synthesis of morphine is one of the first example of the Diels-Alder reaction in the context of total synthesis.
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