Max Bockmühl Explained

Max Bockmühl
Birth Date:2 September 1882
Birth Place:Barmen, Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Death Place:Bad Soden am Taunus, Main-Taunus-KreisHessen, Germany
Occupation:Inventor, chemist

Max Bockmühl (2 September 1882  - 5 January 1949) was a German inventor and chemist.

Life

Bockmühl studied chemistry and pharmacy. He worked as chemist in Germany. Together with Gustav Ehrhart working for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst, the pair developed Methadone in Germany, 1937, a drug synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane, as they were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem.[1] Bockmühl was married.

References

  1. Max Bockmuhl, Über eine neue Klasse von analgetisch wirkenden Verbindungen Ann. Chem. 561, 52 (1948)