2013/03/01 by Jaime Wisniak · 1 citation
Medicine · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies #Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology #Beetle Biology and Toxicology Studies
paper · doi:10.1016/s0187-893x(13)72507-2
openalex publication_date 2013/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/25
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