The only problem: The new formulation of the drug, called sulfanilamide, used diethylene glycol, which is essentially poison. More than 100 people, many of them children, died after taking it. The ...

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They then treated the wound with sulfanilamide drugs. For the benefit of the German Army, whose frontline soldiers suffered greatly from gas gangrene, a type of progressive gangrene, doctors at ...

This nitrite is then diazotized with sulfanilamide and coupled with N-(1-naphthyl)-ethylenediamine to form a red dye. The sample is then passed through a 10mm flowcell and absorbance measured at 540nm ...

For example, the first effective antibacterials were the sulfa drugs 3,18. The first of these molecules, sulfanilamide, was synthesized by IG Farbenindustrie in 1908 because of its potential as a dye.