Nitrone cycloaddition on a dearomatized bicyclic phenol enabled the facile construction of the correctly configured phenanthrene skeleton of codeine. Further steps yielded allopseudocodeine in a completely diastereoselective manner and finally (±)-codeine by allylic transposition through the hydrolysis of chlorocodides.
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