Stereochemical models of benzene, 1869-1875. The conflicting views of Kekule, Koerner, Le Bel and van't Hoff

Paoloni, Leonello

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Title

Stereochemical models of benzene, 1869-1875. The conflicting views of Kekule, Koerner, Le Bel and van't Hoff

Author(s)

Paoloni, Leonello

Issue Date

1992-09-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Benzene Stereochem Model History

Abstract

The stereochem. models of benzene proposed by Joseph Achille Le Bel and Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff in 1874-1875 were related to the well-known controversies on its constitution which began soon after the publication of August Kekule's papers of 1865 and 1866. The models examd. by van't Hoff in his booklet La chimie dans l' espace (1875) were based on a tetrahedral model for the carbon atom which Kekule himself had described in 1867. However, the 1st to use Kekule's model for a stereochem. treatment of the 6-carbon benzene nucleus was Wilhelm Koerner in a paper published in 1869. The connections between these events are examd.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc1992n12p010

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