Prontosil Rubrum

Outros nomes p-sulfamidocrisoidina 4-((2,4-diaminofenil) azo)benzenosulfonamida Identificadores Número CAS 103-12-8, 33445-35-1 (cloridrato) PubChem 66895 Propriedades Fórmula molecular C12H13N5O2S C12H13N5O2S•HCl (cloridrato) Ponto de fusão 248-250 °C (cloridrato) [1] Solubilidade em água Cloridrato: 1 g em 400 mL de água (aumenta significantemente em temperaturas elevadas). Solúvel também em etanol, acetona, gorduras e óleos.[1]

1895: German bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, recipient of the 1939 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery (announced in 1932) of the antibacterial effects of Prontosil, was born. Prontosil, also called sulfamidochrysoidine, trade name of the first synthetic drug used in the treatment of general bacterial infections in humans. Prontosil was introduced into medicine in the 1930s. Prontosil resulted from research, directed by German chemist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, on the antibacterial action of azo dyes. A red azo dye of low toxicity, Prontosil was shown by Domagk to prevent mortality in mice infected with Streptococcus bacteria. The dye was also effective in controlling Staphylococcus infections in rabbits. Within a relatively short period, it was demonstrated that Prontosil was effective not only in combating experimental infections in animals but also against streptococcal diseases in humans, including meningitis and puerperal sepsis. Later it was found that Prontosil is disrupted in the tissues to form para-aminobenzenesulfonamide (sulfanilamide). Prontosil has been replaced in clinical use by newer sulfonamide drugs, including sulfanilamide, sulfathiazole, sulfamethoxazole, and others. LEARN MORE in these related Britannica articles: history of medicine: Sulfonamide drugs … announced that the red dye Prontosil is active against streptococcal infections in mice and humans. Soon afterward French workers showed that its active antibacterial agent is sulfanilamide. In 1936 English physician Leonard Colebrook and colleagues provided overwhelming evidence of the efficacy of both Prontosil and sulfanilamide in streptococcal septicemia (bloodstream… pharmaceutical industry: Early efforts in the development of anti-infective drugs …of the dyes, known as Prontosil, was later found to be metabolized in the patient to sulfanilamide, which was the active antibacterial molecule. In 1933 Prontosil was given to the first patient, an infant with a systemic staphylococcal infection. The infant underwent a dramatic cure. In subsequent years many derivatives… chemotherapy The discovery of Prontosil in the early 1930s proved that antibacterial agents could be developed. Prontosil was the forerunner of the sulfonamide drugs, which came to be widely used for the treatment of bacterial infections in humans and domestic animals.…