Osmium: 15g Piperonal, apparently, even if the above poster doesn't express himself so clearly. This synthesis is very similar to the one in Pihkal #100 for the same nitrostyrene, with the exception of the latter one using cyclohexylamine for a yield of 10.7g, instead of this with NH4OAc, yielding 9g.
Carboxyl: The Shulgin article above discusses the ambiguity of the name "piperonylacetone", which can both mean the three-carbon side-chain compound MDP2P and the four-carbon side-chain homolog (the benzylacetone). This is also discussed in Pihkal, see the extensions and commentary part in http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109.shtml (http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109.shtml)
for details.