Dimitar Paskov (, 18 October 1914,
Gorno Brodi
Ano Vrontou ( el, Άνω Βροντού; bg, Горно Броди, ''Gorno Brodi'') is a remote mountain village and a former community in the northern Serres (regional unit), Serres regional unit, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform ...
– 24 April 1986,
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
) is a
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
n chemist who led the Sopharma team that extracted Nivalin
[CHRUSCIEL, M. and VARAGIĆ, V. (1966), THE EFFECT OF GALANTAMINE ON THE BLOOD PRESSURE OF THE RAT. British Journal of Pharmacology and Chemotherapy, 26: 295–301. doi: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1966.tb01908.x] (
Galantamine) in 1959. The original phytopreparation is an extract of the alkaloid from bulbs of
common snowdrop.
Galantamine hydrobromide (Nivalin) has formula C
17H
21NO
3.HBr and molecular weight 386.3.
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Bulgarian scientists
Bulgarian chemists
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1996 deaths
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