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Wrong structure[edit]

The acidic form of Losartan shown is hardly soluble in water, and isn't what you find in any pill. What's marketted is the potassium salt of this, made by mixing with KOH to pull off the H on the tetrazole, and aromatize it to a negative tetrazole ring. The K+ is the countercharge. You can see this structure in package inserts for this drug, and we need to fix our structure and add one K and one less H to our empirical forumula. SBHarris 04:07, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]