Jean-Baptiste Riché
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Jean-Baptiste Riché, Count of Grande-Riviere-du-Nord was a career officer and general in the Haitian Army. He was made President of Haiti on March 1, 1846.
Jean Baptiste Riché
Cantharidin
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Cantharidin is an odorless, colorless fatty substance of the terpenoid class, which is secreted by many species of blister beetles. Its main current use in pharmacology is treating molluscum contagios
Jean-Baptiste Riché
…27, 1847, possibly from being poisoned, although this has never been established, and one report was that he died by voluntarily taking an aphrodisiac, Cantharides. Riché's presidency, considered ineffective by historians, opened the way for considerable changes in the political landscape of Haiti during the…
Most total syntheses of cantharidin start with a Diels-Alder reaction.
Spanish fly (Lytta vesicatoria), a beetle that secretes cantharidin