Word: symmetrel
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Developed an antiflu pill named Symmetrel (the company calls it "the first oral antiviral drug"), which is agitating the highly profitable pharmaceutical industry and could, with the Food and Drug Administration's expected approval, provide a whole new field for Du Pont...
Testing Prisoners. Like other explorers, Du Pont's chemists often discover not what they had set out to find but something far more intriguing. One notable case is the company's new anti-virus drug, Symmetrel, which derives from a compound of organic chemicals that has a uniquely diamond-shaped molecular structure and is called adamantane. First formulated by a pair of Yugoslav scientists in 1941, adaman-tane had long been a laboratory curiosity around the world-because of its unusual structure-when Du Pont asked its men to search out uses...
...never before tried. Copeland, for one, has special reason to be pleased: 20 years ago he proposed in writing that Du Pont turn its enormous research potential to the drug business. "The pharmaceutical companies have been queuing up at our door seeking rights to manufacture or sell Symmetrel," says he, "but we're going to market it ourselves...