Jānis Polis
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| Born | 25 June 1938 Eleja parish, Latvia |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Riga, Latvia |
| Nationality | Latvian |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis |
| Alma mater | Riga Polytechnical Institute |
| Known for | Development of one of the first methods of synthesis of rimantadine |
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Jānis Polis (25 June 1938 – 12 April 2011) was a Soviet and Latvian pharmacologist and the developer of one of the first methods of synthesis of rimantadine, which was discovered in 1963 by William W. Prichard of Du Pont & Co.[1][2][3] He was born in Eleja parish, Latvia. On 6 February 2009 Polis was awarded the WIPO Award for Outstanding Inventors.[4] Polis died in Riga, Latvia on 12 April 2011 at the age of 72.
References
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- ↑ US patent 3352912 to W. W. Prichard
- ↑ United States Patent № 4551552: Process for preparing rimantadine: Rimantadine and related compounds useful as antivirals were first described by Prichard in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,352,912 and 3,592,934. Both patents describe the preparation of rimantadine from the corresponding ketone oxime by reduction with lithium aluminum hydride.
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Further reading
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (Latvian) (English)
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