Max Bockmühl

Max Bockmühl (born 2 September 1882 in Barmen; died 5 January 1949 in Bad Soden am Taunus) was a German inventor and chemist.

40mg of Methadone

Life

Bockmühl studied chemistry and pharmacy. He worked as chemist in Germany. Methadone was developed in 1937 in Germany by scientists Max Bockmühl and Gustav Ehrhart working for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst (it is synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane) who were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem.[1] Bockmühl was married.

References

  1. ↑ Max Bockmuhl, Über eine neue Klasse von analgetisch wirkenden Verbindungen Ann. Chem. 561, 52 (1948)
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