Synthetic Quinine - The Story of Perkin

When he was 18, perkin started his famous project to synthesize quinine. His first attempt resulted in a reddish brown material that was not at all what he was after. He then tried an extraction of the black precipitate with methenal. What he got was a move matter whichever of those versions played out and it's possible that it could be kind of some overlap between them. The name move is derived from the old french word for mallow, because of that plant's pale purple flower. So that's why it's called movine. That's not a particularly common word in plainer terms.