150 Years of Organic Structures
2010; American Chemical Society; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1021/bk-2010-1044.ch004
ISSN1947-5918
Autores Tópico(s)Various Chemistry Research Topics
ResumoIn 1858, a pair of papers were published that were to change the way that organic chemists thought about the compounds they dealt with. The first to appear was a paper by Friedrich August Kekulé and the second, which appeared only slightly afterward, was by a brilliant young Scotsman, Archibald Scott Couper. Three years later, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov presented his own form of the theory in a more usable form, and used it not only to rationalize the chemistry of known compounds, but to predict the existence of new compounds. Unlike modern structural theory, none of the principals involved thought of the structures as having a physical meaning, but, instead, made a clear distinction between the chemical structure of the compound, which could be deduced from its bonding affinities, and its physical structure, which could not.
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