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‎Essai analytique des asperges"‎

‎Paris, Chez Bernard, AN XIII (1805). No wrappers. In: ""Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.."" Vol. 55, Cahier 2 (30 Thermidor an XIII). Pp. 113-224 (entire issue offered). Htitle to vol. 55 present. Robiquet's paper: pp. 152-171.‎

‎First appearance of Robiquet's first chemical paper, in which he relates his discovery of asparagine by analysis of asparagus juice, the first amino acid to be discovered. The following year he made the first isolation of this amino acid together with Vaguelin. Pierre Jean Robiquet was a French chemist, who laid founding work in identifying amino acids, the fundamental bricks of proteins, through recognizing the first of them, asparagin, in 1806, in the take up of the industry of industrial dyes, with the identification of alizarin in 1826, and in the emergence of modern medications, through the identification of codeine in 1832, a powerful molecule today of widespread use with analgesic and antidiarrheal properties.‎