Quinine and the Birth of the Dye Industry

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  • Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
  • As we just learned, the 19th century brought about the practice of isolating compounds with medicinal properties from their natural sources, such as a variety of alkaloids. But one such alkaloid deserves its own chapter in this story, and that is quinine. This compound is found in the bark of the Cinchona trees native to Peru, and was discovered to effectively combat malaria. Eventually, the compound responsible for this property was isolated, and named quinine, after the local name for the tree itself, "quina-quina". Given that a supply of this substance was integral for any empire intending to expand into Africa and other territories, and that the bark itself was limited, great effort was put towards synthesizing quinine. It was futile in the 19th century, as the comprehension of chemistry just wasn't there yet. But the demand led to a series of fortuitous accidents, first by William Perkin and his discovery of revolutionary synthetic dyes, and then the development of the dye industry which eventually gave rise to the modern pharmaceutical industry. Let's get the full story now!
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Комментарии • 142

  • @allak8294
    @allak8294 3 года назад +39

    OMG PROF. DAVE , PLEASE DO VIDEOS ON PERFUME CHEMISTRY ❤️❤️❤️❤️

    • @russellzauner
      @russellzauner 3 года назад +3

      Prof Dave: *teaches essential oil extraction*
      Internet: *cannabis has entered the chat*

    • @prakashdaga
      @prakashdaga 3 года назад

      @@russellzauner ok

  • @sciencewolf7775
    @sciencewolf7775 3 года назад +27

    Chemistry! Drugs are cool to learn about, as they mix biology and chemistry. Thanks Professor Dave!

    • @rezzer7918
      @rezzer7918 2 месяца назад

      Thus the related discipline, Biochemistry.

  • @Pugetwitch
    @Pugetwitch 3 года назад +11

    I have autism/Asperger's. this topic is one of my special interests along with the German corporate mergers that occured within the same industry. I really appreciate you for creating this content! I subscribed upon seeing the title and look forward to watching more.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  3 года назад +3

      Much more about the emerging German pharma biz to come!

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  2 года назад

      Just continuing with this series as I have been, slowly but surely.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  2 года назад

      Well my father writes the scripts for this series, and someone else does the animation, so if you call that a collaboration then yes that will continue.

    • @sakeena_2147
      @sakeena_2147 Год назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains sir plz make a video on reserpine drug....

    • @stevensmith4752
      @stevensmith4752 25 дней назад

      I'm also on the spectrum

  • @josephbrennan370
    @josephbrennan370 3 года назад +28

    Sure it's a Friday. I may as well learn about the birth of the dye industry.

    • @UmVtCg
      @UmVtCg 3 года назад +4

      You've learnt more than that

    • @Pugetwitch
      @Pugetwitch 3 года назад

      I thought I was just going to expand upon things that I had already known, but instead this video enlightened me to a ton of historical context!

  • @astroadventures3559
    @astroadventures3559 3 года назад +26

    I really enjoy the stories when you start talking about just the chemical makeup and breaking down the different ways to create chemical makeups I don't really follow that well as I'm not too big into chemistry. But when you tell one of your stories involving chemistry I absolutely love it. I wish I understood more about chemistry so I can enjoy the other videos more as well. But in any case I just want to thank you for your hard work and time spent making these videos, I really enjoy them!

    • @sly3575
      @sly3575 3 года назад +4

      Some of his other videos are great tutorials. I've increased my knowledge of chemistry leaps and bounds with them!

  • @alsilverman5084
    @alsilverman5084 3 года назад +11

    Dave thank you! Really interesting, and timely since I’ve been watching the series about opioid addiction “Crime of the Century” the facts surrounding that are terrifying.

  • @xModerax
    @xModerax 2 года назад +1

    The quality of this video is stellar. Well done!

  • @eugeniebreida1583
    @eugeniebreida1583 3 года назад +8

    Perfect presentation. Riveting and relaxing simultaneously, to me your delivery style brings on very pleasant chemical reactions. (Donating!)

  • @Lou.B
    @Lou.B 2 года назад +2

    My first viewing of your work, and I love it! (especially the humor at 9:50) New subscriber! Keep it up!

  • @joelmonsion1639
    @joelmonsion1639 2 года назад +3

    Hope he doesnt abandon this series, its so good

  • @lindaedvardsson4218
    @lindaedvardsson4218 3 года назад +9

    Wow..,🥳🙌🏼... Thank You, Prof. Dave❣️ .. 👋🏼😌🇸🇪

  • @11kele
    @11kele 3 года назад +2

    This channel deserves much more views and subscribers...

  • @Christian-ve1wi
    @Christian-ve1wi 3 года назад +1

    Great content as always thanks Professor Dave.

  • @funnymonke2275
    @funnymonke2275 3 года назад +3

    This is a very cool video. Keep up the amazing lessons!

  • @jeroenzomer7516
    @jeroenzomer7516 3 года назад +1

    Very, very interesting. Thank you!

  • @jacobdiller8140
    @jacobdiller8140 3 года назад +6

    This was awesome.

  • @WmLatin
    @WmLatin 3 года назад +4

    This video deserves a million views!

  • @glennpearson9348
    @glennpearson9348 3 года назад +10

    What an incredible adventure you are taking us through, Professor Dave! It really is amazing how many advancements in science and mathematics happened entirely by accident. I guess it really does go to show that "The harder you practice, the luckier you become."

    • @archivist17
      @archivist17 3 года назад

      Have you heard of the series 'Connections', presented by James Burke? It shows a lot of the links between discoveries and inventions.

  • @pansepot1490
    @pansepot1490 3 года назад +6

    I don’t know if the original mauvine was actually light resistant but unfortunately most synthetic dies aren’t. They discolor with light, purple red and yellow tones in particular. As an artist working in oil and acrylic I learned that the hard way. Hell, had the same problem even with house paint.
    Fascinating video. 👍

  • @markshort9098
    @markshort9098 3 года назад +4

    Professor Dave awsome vid as always 👍

  • @GREATLORDPOOH
    @GREATLORDPOOH 9 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for extracting thw knowledge of the printed word into a format more easily absorbed by those with leatning challenges

  • @rikiyul
    @rikiyul 4 месяца назад

    Very happy I found you.🎉
    You are super awesome.

  • @vivianavilchis3186
    @vivianavilchis3186 3 года назад

    thank you for these awesome videos

  • @stellareid2993
    @stellareid2993 12 дней назад

    Sensational Dave !!!!!!

  • @Atlas6355_
    @Atlas6355_ 3 года назад

    Excellent! Thanks

  • @alexstewart9747
    @alexstewart9747 3 года назад

    Very interesting. Thank you.

  • @full_regalia8649
    @full_regalia8649 3 года назад

    Great video!!

  • @backstreetfan2887
    @backstreetfan2887 3 года назад

    very good information

  • @davew6949
    @davew6949 3 года назад +5

    Hoffman may have been wrong, because he was working with incorrect theoretical tools, but he still stepped forward, attempting to produce new results, RECORDING those results and adding to knowledge in this way.

  • @osinachiihediohanma6549
    @osinachiihediohanma6549 2 года назад +1

    This is Great! I enjoyed every bit of it. Your presentation style is awesome. Was looking for a perfect introduction to Pharmacology. Please where are the remaining videos.. not produced yet?

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  2 года назад +2

      Sorry these are very slow to produce as the animator is very busy but there will be about 20 more over time!

  • @oddviews
    @oddviews 3 года назад

    I was transfixed by this remarkable account of SCIENCE, influencing the world in so many important ways

  • @GCharlesLangisChip
    @GCharlesLangisChip 2 года назад +1

    Hey professor Dave I'm a regular visitor to your content. I think it's good stuff. At any rate I was watching a video by the state of Washington on a one pot synthesis and I was wondering if you were the chemist ?

  • @mohammedal-taie8696
    @mohammedal-taie8696 3 года назад

    Really good

  • @kemalkemal9130
    @kemalkemal9130 2 года назад

    Good job 👍

  • @lindaedvardsson4218
    @lindaedvardsson4218 3 года назад +1

    Cool.. quinine is amazing but artemisin helped us overhand of this disease.. thus..malaria is still like a big bleeding, infectious(🙄) sore in our world. I hope We can use all our knowledge We HAD to take in the pandemic story too.. Then We start talking. This is in ALL ways so interesting and opens up so much.. 😐.. Thank You for another one incredible and well done vid in all of its aspects, Prof. Dave.. 👋🏼😌🇸🇪

  • @FreemanVashier
    @FreemanVashier 3 года назад

    Great content

  • @maya.amro26
    @maya.amro26 Год назад

    Dr shaimaa fayez in our AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY used your whole video as lecture and put it into PowerPoint slides thank you

  • @adilalbayati2874
    @adilalbayati2874 3 месяца назад

    You are the best bro

  • @LiborTinka
    @LiborTinka 3 года назад +1

    Extraction of quinine from Cinchona bark was always my planned hobby project, not for its pharmaceutical properties, but for its intense blue fluorescence.

  • @graceisawesome539
    @graceisawesome539 2 года назад

    HOW AM I ONLY JUST NOW DISCOVERING THIS SIDE OF PROFESSOR DAVE’S CHANNEL!?!

  • @dopa_explainz0080
    @dopa_explainz0080 3 года назад +3

    Proud to be a chemistry student❤️

    • @willimasjohanson9926
      @willimasjohanson9926 3 года назад

      I contracted herpes' I was told there is no Herpes cure except treatment to control it. I totally lost hope. All I could think was losing my life because it was so embarrassing to have this virus, few weeks ago I read about a possible natural cure which was guaranteed. And I ordered the treatment after some weeks I got 100% cure. Now I'm so excited to share this testimony thanks Dr okougbo Email:dr.okougboherbalhome@gmail.com.

  • @fromaggio7654
    @fromaggio7654 3 года назад

    Humble beginnings

  • @oscarappleby2085
    @oscarappleby2085 3 года назад

    Hi bro big fan

  • @VoidHalo
    @VoidHalo 21 день назад

    This is interesting. I've only really been familiar with azo dyes in the past. And dyer's wode to a lesser extent.

  • @tosoledo
    @tosoledo 2 года назад +1

    I would like to know what book you use to make this video series? I want to learn more about he history of medicine.

    • @vittoriof4871
      @vittoriof4871 2 года назад

      No books, mostly specialized literature. Many chemistry and pharmacy journals publish historical accounts, which are always good sources of well-researched information.

  • @RedPhantom307
    @RedPhantom307 6 месяцев назад +1

    I was forced to watch this video in a high school class and it was made into homework

  • @s0urfru1t
    @s0urfru1t 2 года назад

    Could you make the time line available for printing?!???!

  • @sakeena_2147
    @sakeena_2147 Год назад

    Hello sir plz make a video on reserpine drug........✌️

  • @psionic111
    @psionic111 Год назад

    14:32 And by the end of the 19th century, the dye market was "saturated"... well played, sir, well played. ;)

  • @core6108
    @core6108 3 года назад +2

    will you make a zoology tutorial professor ?

  • @asylumskp4391
    @asylumskp4391 3 года назад +1

    I swear half of the knowledge we know of wouldn't exist without drug use

  • @MatheusCampos-ex8et
    @MatheusCampos-ex8et 3 года назад +1

    Would you mind giving a shot at debunking spiritism and mesmerism? Asking for a friend.

  • @saucer1017
    @saucer1017 3 года назад +3

    Thank you Chemistry Jesus you have saved me once again

    • @willimasjohanson9926
      @willimasjohanson9926 3 года назад

      I contracted herpes' I was told there is no Herpes cure except treatment to control it. I totally lost hope. All I could think was losing my life because it was so embarrassing to have this virus, few weeks ago I read about a possible natural cure which was guaranteed. And I ordered the treatment after some weeks I got 100% cure. Now I'm so excited to share this testimony thanks Dr okougbo Email:dr.okougboherbalhome@gmail.com.

  • @ajhieb
    @ajhieb 3 года назад +1

    James Burke would be proud.

  • @UltraRik
    @UltraRik 3 года назад

    an ENTIRE video where Dave doesn't call anyone 'idiotic'? impossible!!!

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  3 года назад +4

      I have 1,000+ academic tutorials, bud. Familiarize yourself with my channel a bit.

    • @UltraRik
      @UltraRik 3 года назад +2

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains 1000+?!? these are really well made, youtube seems to only recommend the beef

  • @UtraVioletDreams
    @UtraVioletDreams 3 года назад +1

    I'm not sure if this type of soda is worldwide available. Here in the Netherlands it is. Quinine is added to Bitter Lemon to give it it's bitter taste.

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 3 года назад +3

      I believe you’re describing what we call ‘tonic water’ in usa? We often enjoy it w/vodka, on ice!

    • @sjholmesbrown
      @sjholmesbrown 3 года назад

      @@eugeniebreida1583 This is the origin of the classic 'Gin & Tonic' cocktail. The sweet gin was added to cover the bitter taste of quinine in the tonic water.

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 3 года назад

      @@sjholmesbrown Thank you for the correction, g&t's are obviously infinitely superior to vodka tonics. I'd forgotten, as ethanol is no longer on my 'list', age has a way of defeating alcohol metabolism for some of us, sadly.
      And now I see that your lesson alerts me that gin was added to get medicinal quinine down, for the soldiers?? And similar? Interesting back history.

  • @taylorlibby7642
    @taylorlibby7642 3 года назад +3

    Quinine is why gin and tonics w lime are the perfect health drink.

    • @donchristie420
      @donchristie420 3 года назад +3

      Yup- Tanqueray in particular😉

    • @taylorlibby7642
      @taylorlibby7642 3 года назад +2

      @@donchristie420 I've been drinking the Tanqueray Rangpur lately. Highly recommended. 👍

    • @MarvinMonroe
      @MarvinMonroe 3 года назад

      Ehh almost all tonic water nowadays has basically zero quinine. Few years ago searched for a one that had decent levels. I love straight tonic water. It's like bitter Sprite

  • @wolfsbaneandnightshade2166
    @wolfsbaneandnightshade2166 2 года назад

    My only complaint is the picture you chose for 1850 was WAY off. Like... nearly 75 years off minimum. Wigs like that stopped being fashionable by the 1790s

  • @whatsagoodusername823
    @whatsagoodusername823 3 года назад

    Unu per l'algoritmu

  • @adissentingopinion848
    @adissentingopinion848 2 года назад

    14:30 I heard that. Now I will give you one and a half chuckles. Ha h-

  • @frozenjoe6313
    @frozenjoe6313 22 дня назад

    Ah, not to be offensive , but there is a book , dated about 1965 written by Norman Taylor I think entitled " plant drugs that changed the world,"" and this book gives a very important different history of " Chinchona Bark ", Most notably the only high quinine yielding chinchona trees found after many years searching was the " Markham Trees" grown by the Dutch, With someone named " ledger" involved, resultd in trees producing bark containing at least 20 % quinine content, and higher., All other Cinchona trees produced bark contained 1 to 3% quinine content at best . The Dutch Quinine Monopoly was dominant worldwide and strategically critical for all nations especially during ww11. Please find and read that book, it gives a very exact history not found anywhere else, and it should be noted malaria has 3 types of the disease, which results in multi millions of deaths worldwide, yearly,.. even to current days.. Malaria is still a tremendous killer, with no end in sight............ Joseph Henry , Boise Idaho.

  • @Thaumius
    @Thaumius 3 года назад

    The best inventions of all time have one thing in common, created accidentally.

  • @oitubeman1019
    @oitubeman1019 3 года назад +2

    Hello

  • @ImnotSteven3
    @ImnotSteven3 3 года назад

    I have a question professor of "science" is there a god or what will you say we as humans come from?

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus42 3 года назад +1

    Mauve rhymes with drove or trove.
    So mauveine is just mauve with long "een" sound after it. Mauveine. Much the way quinine sounds, with the "een" as a suffix.

    • @cambridgemart2075
      @cambridgemart2075 3 года назад

      Thank you for saving me from having to make the same explanation.

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 3 года назад

      @@cambridgemart2075 My pleasure. I don't think they use "mauve" in the states. They just use "purple" for all those colours.
      And even if they did Webster & his "simplified English for semi literate cow pokes" would've... Oooh, difficult! "Move" is already a word. Well, that explains it's exclusion from his dictionary & thus it's disappearance from American English!
      I wonder if that's the case?

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 3 года назад +1

      @@Aengus42 Not the case! Mauve is alive and well in the US, tho rarely a color favored by me ; )

    • @Aengus42
      @Aengus42 3 года назад +1

      @@eugeniebreida1583 Oh! Thank you. I was obviously wrong. Thank you for putting me straight.
      I discovered that "Mauve" comes from the French word for "Mallow". A wild flower here with purple petals. And the "ine" just means that the substance is a basic alkaloid So Mauveine is "the basic alkaloid that dyes things the same colour as the petals of the plant Malva sylvestris or Mallow".
      Words fascinate me! :o)

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 3 года назад

      @@Aengus42 I love words as well, though as an architect I tend to wander more around my pencil's end in the act of sketching. However, being a gardener, I'm with you on the mallows, and can attest to missing the very popular 'barnaby'?? Malta sylvestris, which graced a couple outer corners of my former urban 'farmhouse'. SO beautiful.
      I loved the soft light pink petals which were so profuse and yet delicate, like large snowy butterflies lighting upon the vertical stems. Maybe you can find the real name 'barnaby' is your first clue! : )
      And thankfully I can say with confidence the petals' color is so comfortably distant from 'mauve' that the thought of 'it' would never enter my head! ; )

  • @blakeanderson5011
    @blakeanderson5011 9 месяцев назад

    Sorry David Blaine, I’m tryna watch Davex Plain.

  • @1jotun136
    @1jotun136 Год назад

    And Artemisia Aunnua has kicked it's butt and replaced it. Substantially easier to grow and simpler to extract.

  • @Rayzersword
    @Rayzersword 3 года назад

    "When the marsh fever spreads from our swamps to our homes."

  • @miroslavzderic3192
    @miroslavzderic3192 3 года назад

    14:34 The dye market was saturated, eeeeeeeeeee good meme

  • @jalapenoandbanana
    @jalapenoandbanana 3 года назад +1

    Color

  • @davew6949
    @davew6949 3 года назад +1

    The dye market was saturated. What you did there.... hmmmm!

  • @aleisbarrett13
    @aleisbarrett13 2 года назад

    Ken ham alt timeline thumbnail

  • @Bruski1988
    @Bruski1988 3 года назад

    The standard American pronunciation of quinine is kwī-nīn, with the long I sound. Professor Dave is using the British pronunciation. Not wrong, but different from what I ever heard (and I heard a lot about malaria, since my father had contracted it on Guadalcanal).

    • @vittoriof4871
      @vittoriof4871 3 года назад +1

      True, but I have never heard the statement that the British pronunciation is "not wrong" vs. the American one. It is usually the other way around. Most people acknowledge that, in the English language, the English pronunciation is the standard one, but the American one can also be...acceptable.😊

    • @Bruski1988
      @Bruski1988 3 года назад

      @@vittoriof4871 Touche.

  • @oddviews
    @oddviews 3 года назад +1

    In ordinary daily life, how many folks here have found something thought to have been lost, but was found when looking for something else?

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    @garimaa5311 3 года назад

    ❤️❤️ from 🇮🇳🇮🇳

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    @SarahMohammedAli7 3 года назад

    Search for truth and follow it ❤🌿
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  • @rajalakshmisabarirajan2280
    @rajalakshmisabarirajan2280 3 года назад +3

    First comment

  • @rebirth_mishap
    @rebirth_mishap 3 года назад

    You pronounced A.D. wrong

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  3 года назад +2

      Historians say CE.

    • @rebirth_mishap
      @rebirth_mishap 3 года назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains and they too mispronounce A.D. Don't get me wrong, I love your work. You're one of my favorite RUclipsrs

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  3 года назад +6

      I'm not sure how one can mispronounce letters.

    • @eugeniebreida1583
      @eugeniebreida1583 3 года назад

      @@ProfessorDaveExplains Me neither...and I would add it’s hard to find fault in your excellent research, and even better presentation. A Class, this one!

  • @tonystark6997
    @tonystark6997 3 года назад

    Dot.

  • @jorgehuamanmusic
    @jorgehuamanmusic Месяц назад

    Kwai-nine is how it's pronounced.

  • @troy-go8qk
    @troy-go8qk 3 года назад

    w

  • @rezzer7918
    @rezzer7918 2 месяца назад

    1. It's pronounced QUI-nine not qui-NINE. 2. It's pronounced NAPH-thyl-a-mine not naph-thyl-AM-ine.

  • @Rayzersword
    @Rayzersword 3 года назад

    "Rather predictably, Europeans fucked everything up." XD

  • @maxine3978
    @maxine3978 Год назад

    4:06 classic europeans

  • @rufusthehunalprophet6648
    @rufusthehunalprophet6648 2 года назад

    Can't believe you used a picture of tea for caffeine. Sure, you're right in doing so, but I'm afraid I have to unsub.

    • @ProfessorDaveExplains
      @ProfessorDaveExplains  2 года назад +2

      You have to unsubscribe because you're angry that tea has caffeine?

  • @smizmar8
    @smizmar8 2 года назад

    The dye market was saturdated? haha... stop it

  • @lrdpacific3328
    @lrdpacific3328 3 года назад

    To everyone whos reading this i dont care about you just dont die

  • @mariooldani9545
    @mariooldani9545 Год назад

    Gross.

  • @kishaandrea9533
    @kishaandrea9533 3 года назад

    First