Terramycin
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Terramycin
(medicine) An early oxytetracycline
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In the spring of 1952, the Pfizer team succeeded in ascertaining the structures of both Terramycin and Aureomycin.
In 1950, Harvard University professor Robert Burns Woodward determined the chemical structure of the related substance, oxytetracycline (Terramycin); the patent protection for its fermentation and production was also first issued in 1950.
Prior to 1952, neither the molecular structure of Terramycin nor that of Aureomycin was known.