👉 Rubidine is a compound that has been used as an anti-malarial drug in the treatment of malaria. It was first synthesized by the German chemist Auguste Pfitzinger in 1908 and named after the German chemist and physicist Ernst Rubens, who was born in 1859. The compound is a dihydroxyquinone and has been used to inhibit the activity of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
