It was too hard to UTFSE, I suppose? The following thread is among the top 20 in
this forum even:
Post 477883 (missing)
(Rhodium: "Practical Total Synthesis of Cocaine", Methods Discourse)
yes a lot of references there, but i dont find an answer on how to make Methylecgonine from tropinone.. In this old text they reduce tropinone with raney Ni, Is this a process that will work and under what yield? it is this reference i would like to see...
The Findlay paper here converts tropinone to 2-carbomethoxytropinone:
Post 488336 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=8911.msg48833600#msg48833600)
(Rhodium: "Synthesis of Tropinone & 2-CMT", Methods Discourse)And the links at the bottom of the page concerns the reduction of the latter to methylecgonine. The papers in
Post 487702 (missing)
(Rhodium: "Willstätter's Classic Cocaine Synthesis", Methods Discourse) also details the procedure.
See:
Patent DE406215 (http://l2.espacenet.com/dips/viewer?PN=DE406215&CY=gb&LG=en&DB=EPD)