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652:, a former student of Kekulé, who argued that Kekulé's 1865 structure implied two distinct "ortho" structures, depending on whether the substituted carbons are separated by a single or a double bond. Since ortho derivatives of benzene were never actually found in more than one isomeric form, Kekulé modified his proposal in 1872 and suggested that the benzene molecule oscillates between two equivalent structures, in such a way that the single and double bonds continually interchange positions. This implies that all six carbon-carbon bonds are equivalent, as each is single half the time and double half the time. A firmer theoretical basis for a similar idea was later proposed in 1928 by 572: 790: 692:, only the parody had six monkeys seizing each other in a circle, rather than a single snake as in Kekulé's anecdote. Some historians have suggested that the parody was a lampoon of the snake anecdote, possibly already well-known through oral transmission even if it had not yet appeared in print. Others have speculated that Kekulé's story in 1890 was a re-parody of the monkey spoof, and was a mere invention rather than a recollection of an event in his life. 669: 38: 146: 550:, heavily criticized the use of structural formulas that were offered, as he thought, without proof. However, most chemists followed Kekulé's lead in pursuing and developing what some have called "classical" structure theory, which was modified after the discovery of electrons (1897) and the development of quantum mechanics (in the 1920s). 676:
The new understanding of benzene, and hence of all aromatic compounds, proved to be so important for both pure and applied chemistry after 1865 that in 1890 the German Chemical Society organized an elaborate appreciation in Kekulé's honor, celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first benzene
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independently arrived at the idea of self-linking of carbon atoms (his paper appeared in June 1858), and provided the first molecular formulas where lines symbolize bonds connecting the atoms. For organic chemists, the theory of structure provided dramatic new clarity of understanding, and a reliable
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Kekulé never used his first given name; he was known throughout his life as August Kekulé. After he was ennobled by the Kaiser in 1895, he adopted the name August Kekule von Stradonitz, without the French acute accent over the second "e". The French accent had apparently been added to the name by
583:. In 1865 Kekulé published a paper in French (for he was then still in Belgium) suggesting that the structure contained a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds. The following year he published a much longer paper in German on the same subject. 553:
The idea that the number of valences of a given element was invariant was a key component of Kekulé's version of structural chemistry. This generalization suffered from many exceptions, and was subsequently replaced by the suggestion that valences were fixed at certain
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guide to both analytic and especially synthetic work. As a consequence, the field of organic chemistry developed explosively from this point. Among those who were most active in pursuing early structural investigations were, in addition to Kekulé and Couper,
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Kekulé's 1890 speech, in which these anecdotes appeared, has been translated into English. If one takes the anecdote as reflecting an accurate memory of a real event, circumstances mentioned in the story suggest that it must have happened early in 1862.
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He told another autobiographical anecdote in the same 1890 speech, of an earlier vision of dancing atoms and molecules that led to his theory of structure, published in May 1858. This happened, he claimed, while he was riding on the upper deck of a
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paper. Here Kekulé spoke of the creation of the theory. He said that he had discovered the ring shape of the benzene molecule after having a reverie or day-dream of a snake seizing its own tail (this is an ancient symbol known as the
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according to Kekuléan structure theory could be represented by the chain structure I-O-O-O-O-H. By contrast, the modern structure of (meta) periodic acid has all four oxygen atoms surrounding the iodine in a tetrahedral geometry.
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of carbon (which Kekulé announced late in 1857) and the ability of carbon atoms to link to each other (announced in a paper published in May 1858), to the determination of the bonding order of all of the atoms in a molecule.
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Kekulé's idea of assigning certain atoms to certain positions within the molecule, and schematically connecting them using what he called their "Verwandtschaftseinheiten" ("affinity units", now called "
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in London. Once again, if one takes the anecdote as reflecting an accurate memory of a real event, circumstances related in the anecdote suggest that it must have occurred in the late summer of 1855.
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and others, Kekulé was the principal formulator of the theory of chemical structure (1857–58). This theory proceeds from the idea of atomic valence, especially the
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A larger-than-life monument of Kekulé, unveiled in 1903, is situated in front of the former Chemical Institute (completed 1868) at the
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was in its earliest years, and too little evidence was then available to help chemists decide on any particular structure.
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The empirical formula for benzene had been long known, but its highly unsaturated structure was a challenge to determine.
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in 1861 suggested possible structures that contained multiple double bonds or multiple rings, but the study of
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O. T. Benfey (1958). "August Kekulé and the Birth of the Structural Theory of Organic Chemistry in 1858".
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Benfey, O. Theodor. "August Kekule and the Birth of the Structural Theory of Organic Chemistry in 1858."
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Kekulé's benzene ring in modern form, and the alchemical ouroboros symbol of a snake eating its tail
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and a brief compulsory military service, he took temporary assistantships in Paris (1851–52), in
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More evidence was available by 1865, especially regarding the relationships of aromatic
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in his first semester, he decided to study chemistry. Following four years of study in
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Jean Gillis (1966). "Auguste Kekulé et son oeuvre, realisee a Gand de 1858 a 1867".
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Kekulé's father during the Napoleonic occupation of Hesse by France, to ensure that
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1964 West German centenary stamp for the discovery of the molecular formula of
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The counting of possible isomers for diderivatives was, however, criticized by
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A.J. Rocke (1985). "Hypothesis and Experiment in Kekulé's Benzene Theory".
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Organic Chemistry: The Name Game: Modern Coined Terms and Their Origins
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Aug. Kekulé (1865). "Sur la constitution des substances aromatiques".
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Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
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Image and Reality: Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination
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Image and Reality: Kekulé, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination
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Another depiction of benzene had appeared in 1886 in the
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Kekulé structure of benzene with alternating double bonds
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Nickon, Alex; Silversmith, Ernest F. (22 October 2013).
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Translated into English by D. Wilcox and F. Greenbaum,
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