The highly diastereoselective synthesis of five trifluoro-substituted analogues of mono-, di-, and trisubstituted piperidine alkaloids was accomplished in two to four steps from 2-trifluoromethyl keto-protected 4-piperidones, prepared by an intramolecular Mannich-type reaction methodology. A sim-
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