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I did a search for possible starting materials and looked at the cost vs. how many steps for a possible synthesis and you could do it this way:
Buy 2-Chloro-1-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)ethanone, 97% (500 g, $283 Alpha Aesar)
Do a substitution of the chlorine with methyl amine (use a large excess of methyl amine).
Reduce the carbonyl stereoselectively using 1H,3H-Pyrrolo[1,2-c][1,3,2]oxazaborole, tetrahydro-1-methyl-3,3-diphenyl-, (S)- with Borane Dimethyl sulfide complex in THF.
I've done the reduction before, it works pretty well (>75% yield)
That should give you adrenaline.
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