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SyntexLaboratorios Syntex SA was a pharmaceutical company formed in Mexico City in 1944 by Russell Marker to manufacture therapeutic steroids from the Mexican yam. Syntex was integrated into the Roche group in 1994. Additional recommended knowledgeProminent researchers
Birth control pillSyntex submitted their compound to a laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, for biological evaluation, and found it was the most active, orally-effective progestational hormone of its time. Syntex submitted a patent application in November of 1951. G.D. Searle & Co. filed for a patent for the synthesis of the double bond isomer 13 of norethindrone called norethynodrel in August of 1953. Norethynodrel is converted into norethindrone under acidic conditions, and their new patent didn't infringe on Syntex's. Searle obtained approval to market norethynodrel before Syntex received their approval. By 1964, 3 companies including Syntex were marketing 2 mg doses of Syntex's norethindrone. Syntex chemists synthesized cortisone from diosgenin, a phytosteroid contained in Mexican yams. This synthesis was a more economical than the previous Merck & Co. synthesis. References
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