Chemist Charles Romley Alder Wright, in 1874, while working at St. - TopicsExpress



          

Chemist Charles Romley Alder Wright, in 1874, while working at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London, England, first synthesized heroin - so it was his invention. He abandoned his work on heroin after a few experiments. Twenty three years later, a man named Felix Hoffman, working at Bayer, in Germany, managed to independently synthesize Heroin when he was trying to produce codeine. This new derivative of opium was found to be significantly more potent than morphine and so Heinrich Dreser, head of the pharmacological laboratory at Bayer, decided they should move forward with it, rather than another drug they had recently created (Aspirin).
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 05:57:15 +0000

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