Sulfonamides

material · 1935 · Electric age

The first synthetic antibacterial drugs (Domagk).

History: what it evolved from and what it influenced

• Synthetic dye — evolved from. Prontosil was a red dye.

Things built in a similar way

• Antibiotic — works like. The first mass-market antibacterial drugs were synthetic sulfonamides; penicillin was discovered earlier (1928) but went into production later.

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