“…The organic phase was filtered through methylene chloride soaked filter paper and the solvent was removed on a rotary evaporator to yield 33 mg (83%) of crystalline 19. Recrystallization from methylene chloride/zz-hexane provided analytically pure aldehyde 19: mp 138-139 °C; [a]25o +291.4°( 73 mg/L in methanol); ORD (73 mg/L in methanol) [M] 600 (+1220), 400 (+2790), 325 (+11 260), 306 (0), 280 (-10 350), 270 (-11 260), 257 (0), 240 nm (+8100); IR (KBr) 3200, 2880, 1730, 1680, 1630, 1450, 1170 cm"1; >H NMR (90 MHz) 1.98 (s, 3'-CH3), 2.09 (s, 3-CH3), 2.55 (t, J = 7 Hz, a-CH2 of propionic ester), 2.7-3.3 (m, 4 H, /3-CH2 of propionic ester and CH2 bridge), 3.64 (s, OCH3), 4.22 (m, 2-H), 5.38 (dd, JAX=U, JBX = 3 Hz, 37), 6.21 (dd, JAB = 17, = 3 Hz, HB37), 6.41 (dd, JAB = 17, _/AX = 11 Hz, Ha37), 7.30 (br s, lactam NH), 9.40 (s, formyl ), 11.00 (br s, pyrrole NH); MS m/e (rel intensity) 330 (100) M+, 301 (17) M+ -CHO, 299 (14) M+ -OCH3, 208 (26) 5-formyl-3methyl-2-methylene-2/f-pyrrolium-4-propionic acid methyl ester.…”