vitamin B₁₂

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vitamin B12: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	cobalamin • cyanocobalamin

Topics

vitamin B12 coenzyme human nutrition cobalt pernicious anemia vitamin B12 deficiency vitamin B complex vitamin B6 riboflavin pantothenic acid niacin biotin thiamin folic acid

Key People

Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin

English chemist

R.B. Woodward, 1966.

Robert Burns Woodward

American chemist

Karl August Folkers

American chemist