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Pierre-Jean Robiquet

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Abstract

Pierre-Jean Robiquet (1780-1840), a French pharmacist, made important contributions in the areas of mineral chemistry, mineral and vegetable pigments, and extractive and analytical chemistry. Alone, or with his collaborators he discovered asparagine (with Vauquelin), alizarin and purpurin in madder (with Colin), orcin, and orcein in lichens, glycyrrhizin in licorice, cantharidin in cantharides, amygdaline in bitter almonds (with Boutron-Charlard), caffeine (independently of Pelletier, Caventou, Runge) and narcotine and codeine in opium.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)139-149
Number of pages11
JournalEducacion Quimica
Volume24
Issue numberSPL.ISSUE1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

  • Alizarin
  • Alkaloids
  • Amygdalin
  • Caffeine
  • Cantharidin
  • Codeine
  • Glycyrrhizin
  • Morphine
  • Opium
  • Orcin
  • Purpurin
  • Vegetable dyes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Chemistry
  • Education

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