Revisiting the Reduction of Vinpocetine
Simone Borsoi, Luca Pozzi, Valerio Fasano, Andrea Citarella, Giovanni Macetti, Leonardo Lo Presti, Giuseppe Paladino, Umberto Ciriello, Daniele Passarella ChemistrySelect 2025, 10, e202406175 Hydrogenation of the semisynthetic vinca alkaloid vinpocetine produces two epimers that have previously been investigated as chiral additives. However, the absence of a full characterization generated some ambiguities in their stereochemical identification. In this study, computational methods, NMR analysis, and X-ray crystallography … Read more