Sulfanilamide (also spelled sulphanilamide) is a sulfonamide antibacterial drug. Chemically, it is an organic compound consisting of an aniline derivatized...

Elixir sulfanilamide was an improperly prepared sulfonamide antibiotic that caused mass poisoning in the United States in 1937. It is believed to have...

the inactive dye portion a smaller, colorless, active compound called sulfanilamide. The discovery helped establish the concept of "bioactivation" and dashed...

medical experiments revolving around food, seawater, epidemic jaundice, sulfanilamide, blood coagulation and phlegmon. According to the indictments at the...

the elixir sulfanilamide disaster of 1937, described as one of the most consequential mass poisonings of the 20th century. Elixir sulfanilamide was formulated...

became the first oral version of sulfanilamide by Bayer, which had actually obtained a German patent on sulfanilamide as early as 1909, without realizing...

Neosalvarsan 1935 – Prontosil (an oral precursor to sulfanilamide), the first sulfonamide 1936 – Sulfanilamide 1938 – Sulfapyridine (M&B 693) 1939 – sulfacetamide...

aniline derivative and a coupling agent. The most common arrangements use sulfanilamide and N-(1-naphthyl)ethylenediamine: a typical commercial Griess reagent...

influenced by the death of more than 100 patients due to elixir sulfanilamide, a sulfanilamide medication where the toxic solvent diethylene glycol was used...

sometimes used as a synonym for sulfa drug, a derivative or variation of sulfanilamide. The first sulfonamide was discovered in Germany in 1932. Sulfonamides...