• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.70-72
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• 1998

Fentanyl of a potent anilidopiperidine analgesic has been synthesized from a simple phenyle-thylamine by four step sequence. The key part of this synthesis involves an efficient construc-tion of phenylethylpiperidone skeleton via aminomethano desilyation-cyclization followed by Swern oxidation.