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NUMEROUS recent researches have directed our attention to the antimicrobial action of various aromatic amino or nitro compounds containing the following functional groups: sulphamide, R—SO2NH2; thio, R—S—R'; dithio, R—S—S—R'; sulphone, R—SO2—R'; thiophenol, R—SH; sulphinic acid, R—SO2H. By chemical analogy with the arsenic compounds in which the arsenoxide group shows in vitro a very high parasiticidal activity, we have been led to a study of the para-substituted aromatic sulphoxides.
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GIRARD, A., RAY, A. & RICHARD, G. Antimicrobial Action of Some Aromatic Compounds. Nature 140, 283 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140283a0
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