Who synthesized the first compound that would become Prontosil?
Friedrich Mietzsch and Joseph Klarer
Alexander Fleming
Gerhard Domagk
Louis Pasteur
Answer
Friedrich Mietzsch and Joseph Klarer were two German chemists who first synthesized the first compound that would become Prontosil. They were working for I.G. Farben in the 1930s, and they were trying to develop a new antibacterial agent. They synthesized a number of different compounds, and one of them, Prontosil, showed antibacterial activity in animal experiments.
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