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Vitamin C

  • ... that ... in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be marketed as a medicine? Source: Ref #8 (Squires 2011) and #160 (Bachi 2008)
    • ALT1:... that ...in 1933 vitamin C was the first vitamin to be synthesized, and one year later the first synthetic vitamin to be marketed as a medicine? Source: Ref #8 (Squires 2011) and #160 (Bachi 2008)

Improved to Good Article status by David notMD (talk). Self-nominated at 15:41, 27 November 2017 (UTC).

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  • Symbol question.svg Hi, I came by to promote ALT0, which is a very good hook, but I don't see anything about it being "marketed as a medicine" in the article. Yoninah (talk) 00:17, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
The mention is now only in the Discovery section (I had it in the Lead also, but someone edited it out). Also, I had a better citation for establishing 1934. David notMD (talk) 00:53, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Reference changed. However, it does not support "...as a medicine." Proposing ALT2 or ALR1a David notMD (talk) 04:49, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
  • ALT2:... that ... in 1934 vitamin C was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon) and marketed?
  • ALT1a:... that ...in 1933 vitamin C was the first vitamin to be synthesized, and one year later the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked (as Redoxon) and marketed?

Support for first and first also at the Wikipedia entry for Redoxon The citation there for first marketed is the same that I have now added to the Vitamin C article. David notMD (talk) 11:17, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

  • OK, but where in the article does it say it was the first synthetic vitamin to be trademarked and marketed? (The Roche source only says it was trademarked, not that it was the first to be trademarked. It's also not clear that the source in footnote 10, cited in the lead, is saying anything about the vitamin being manufactured or marketed.) Yoninah (talk) 23:34, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
Trying to get a good citation on marketed in 1934. There is this Redoxon website which states " In 1934, we pioneered the world’s first Vitamin C supplement" https://www.redoxon.co.uk/en/who-we-are/ And another company website: http://www.expresschemist.co.uk/Redoxon.html which has "Redoxon was the first manufacturer of synthetic vitamin C, marketed in 1934."
Then there is a non-company link https://books.google.com/books?id=WgamCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=redoxon+1934&source=bl&ots=r0E9O9-wHy&sig=oUHQLaTTQq7zSnR8Uu8Z26I0hBE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiRoZXyiajYAhXkQt8KHaubA-c4ChDoAQg_MAQ#v=onepage&q=redoxon%201934&f=false which has a statement "In 1934, Hoffman-La Roche, which bought the Reichstein process patent, became the first pharmaceutical company to mass product and market synthetic vitamin C, under the brand name Redoxon (Bachi, 2008)". Using this as a citation in the Vitamin C article as support for first to market may be preferred to citing Bachi directly, as the link to the latter is only to the abstract, which does not specifically state first to market, and the Bachi article itself (in German) cannot be sourced on line to confirm the statement. Please let me know if in your opinion the last reference is suitable to support either ALT2 or ALT1a. If so, I will add it to the article. David notMD (talk) 16:29, 26 December 2017 (UTC)