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Max Bockmuhl (born 2 September 1882 in Barmen; died 5 January 1949 in Bad Soden am Taunus) was a German inventor and chemist.
Life
Bockmuhl studied chemistry and pharmacy. He worked as chemist in Germany. Methadone was developed in 1937 in Germany by scientists Max Bockmuhl and Gustav Ehrhart working for I.G. Farbenindustrie AG at the Farbwerke Hoechst (it is synthesised from 1,1-diphenylbutane-2-sulfonic acid and dimethylamino-2-chloropropane) who were looking for a synthetic opioid that could be created with readily available precursors, to solve Germany's opium shortage problem. Bockmuhl was married.
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