“…To a cooled (0 °C) solution of (-)-SI12 (250 mg, 300 mmol) in methanol (6 mL) was added acetyl chloride (427 mL, 6 mmol) dropwise over 30 sec. The reaction was warmed to 20 °C for 9 h, concentrated, and purified by preparative HPLC to provide (-)-15 trifluoroacetate (175 mg, 98% yield) as a colorless, highly viscous oil: R F 0.11 (10:90 methanol:chloroform); 1 7, 149.2, 145.8, 145.4, 136.3, 128.0, 127.4, 127.0, 124.0, 123.3, 115.2, 66.1, 63.0, 62.1, 60.9, 59.9, 59.1, 58.5, 54.6, 30.3, 28.4, 9.2;IR (NaCl/film) 3272, 2946, 2896, 1694, 1674, 1418, 1204, 1134 1.93 (ddd, J = 21.9, 11.3, 10.8 Hz, 1H), 1.44 (d, J = 6.9 Hz, 3H), 1.19 (s, 3H); 1 3 C NMR (75 MHz, CD 3 OD, 50 °C) d 159. 5, 150.1, 146.8, 144.4, 137.4, 129.7, 129.4, 128.9, 126.0, 124.0, 115.5, 98.1, 72.1, 69.5, 67.9, 66.8, 64.9, 64.5, 63.9, 63.5, 61.7, 61.3, 61.2, 57.5, 55.4, 44.8, 39.9, 30.8, 30.5, 21.9, 18.6, 10.0;IR (NaCl/film) 3307, 3064, 2945, 1682, 1204, 1180 Tetrahydroisoquinoline (-)-SI13.…”