EXHIBIT 3(i)(f)

                          CERTIFICATE OF ELIMINATION
                                    TO THE
                         CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                      OF
                          XECHEM INTERNATIONAL, INC.


     Xechem International, Inc. (the "Corporation"), a corporation organized and
 existing under and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of
 Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

          FIRST:  That at a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Corporation
          a resolution was duly adopted which  identified  shares of the capital
          stock of said corporation, which, to the extent hereinafter set forth,
          had the  status of  retired  shares,  and which  retired  shares  were
          exchanged for shares of the Corporation's Common Stock.

          SECOND:  The shares of  capital  stock of the  corporation,  which are
          retired,  are  identified  as being 22,500  shares of Class C Series 1
          Preferred  Stock  (the  "Series 1  Stock"),  22,500  shares of Class C
          Series 2 Preferred Stock (the "Series 2 Stock"),  and 13,180 shares of
          Class C Series 3 Preferred  Stock (the "Series 3 Stock"),  each with a
          stated value of $0.00001 per share.

          THIRD:  The  Corporation  has  filed a  Certificate  of  Designations,
          Preferences  and  Rights  of Class C Series 1  Preferred  Stock  and a
          Certificate of Correction  thereof (together the "Series 1 Certificate
          of  Designations")  as to the  Series  1 Stock  and a  Certificate  of
          Designations,  Preferences  and  Rights  of  Class C  Series  2 Voting
          Convertible  Preferred  Stock and Class C Series 3 Voting  Convertible
          Preferred Stock (the "Series 2 and 3 Certificate of Designations").

          FOURTH:  That the Board of Directors of the Corporation has determined
          not to  reissue  the  shares of Series 1,  Series 2 and Series 3 Stock
          when so retired;  and pursuant to the  provisions of Section 151(g) of
          the Delaware  General  Corporation Law, upon the effective date of the
          filing  of  this   certificate  as  therein   provided  the  Series  1
          Certificate  of  Designations  and the Series 2 and 3  Certificate  of
          Designations  shall  be  eliminated  and  no  longer  a  part  of  the
          Corporation's  Certificate of  Incorporation.  The number of shares of
          Class C Preferred Stock which the Corporation  shall have authority to
          issue shall remain 2,996,350 shares.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Xechem International, Inc. has caused this certificate 
to be signed by Ramesh C. Pandey, its Chairman of the Board of Directors,
 President and Chief Executive Officer,
this 12th day of March, 1997.


                                            XECHEM INTERNATIONAL, INC.

                                          /s/ Ramesh C. Pandey
                                           Ramesh C. Pandey, Ph.D., Chairman of
                                          the Board of Directors, President and
                                                  Chief Executive Officer
ATTEST:
/s/ Leonard A. Mudry
Leonard A. Mudry, Secretary