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THE first synthetic antimalarial that found a place in medicine was pamaquin (plasmochin), which is an 8-aminoquinoline derivative (I; X = CHCH3.[CH2]3; R1 = R2 = C2H5), and since its discovery more than twenty-five years ago1 many examples of the class have been prepared, of which some exceed pamaquin in antimalarial activity.
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BEVERIDGE, E., GOODWIN, L. & WALLS, L. A New Series of Leishmanicides. Nature 182, 316–317 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182316b0
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