Bogusław Bobrański

During the war, he briefly worked as a professor at the National Institute of Medicine in Lviv, managing the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry.

Bobrański conducted extensive research on organic compounds, especially on psychotropic drugs.

In 1956 he synthesised the barbiturate compound proxibarbital, which found medical application in Poland under the trade name of Ipronal, and in Hungary under the name Vasalgin.

[1] He also developed industrially attractive total syntheses of caffeine and theophylline, starting from urea.

In addition to academic textbooks, he wrote 150 experimental works in Poland and abroad.