Alkaloid Synthesis: (+)-Preussin (Britton), (±)-Xenovenine (Livinghouse),
(+)-Subincanadine F (Li), (±)-Strychnine (Reissig), (-)-Virginiamycin M2 (Panek) Aldehydes such as 1 are readily available by direct enantioselective chlorination. Robert Britton of Simon Fraser University found (Org. Lett. 2010, 12,…