Is the asymmetric Pictet-Spengler reaction of activated β-phenethylamines with non-enolisable ketones under reflux in a polar protic solvent: stereoselective, stereospecific or a racemization? In case one stereoisomer predominates, what is the configuration of his chiral center at C1 of the 1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisquinoline?