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Cisplatin
A platinum-based chemotherapy drug, first synthesised in the mid-19th century by Italian chemist Michele Peyrone: its anticancer activity was discovered in the 1960s and in the United States it was approved in 1978 for testicular and ovarian cancer. This family brings together the active ingredient and other impurities.
Did you know?It was found by chance: Barnett Rosenberg passed current between platinum electrodes in a culture of Escherichia coli and the bacteria stopped dividing. The cause was not the current, but a platinum compound from the electrodes.
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EDQM standards 3
The official European Pharmacopoeia standards for this family.
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Custom synthesis of impurities, metabolites and labelled compounds, with the same characterisation level.
