Codeine Research Paper

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Codeine come from the opium poppy plant in England and it was very popular in early 1704, backe in those days poppy plant was marketed as pain reliever .In 1804 a German pharmacist find out how to separate morphine from opium, and that helped the French chemist( Pierre Robiquet) to discover about the codeine in 1832.
Opium plant was center of attention for all Chemist and pharmacist and there was many drugs that been separated from this plant. Codeine was the main drugs that been extracted from opium plant and it was least addicted and fundamental drug in medicine.
Drug manufacturers have had to depend on using the tar from opiate poppies to synthesize morphine. The chemist discovers a new method for codeine synthase by using the coal

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