Some history
•1825 Michael Faraday isolates a new
hydrocarbon from illuminating gas.
hydrocarbon from illuminating gas.
•1834 Eilhardt Mitscherlich isolates same
substance and determines its empirical formula to be CnHn. Compound comes to be called benzene.
substance and determines its empirical formula to be CnHn. Compound comes to be called benzene.
•1845 August W. von Hofmann isolates benzene from coal tar.
•1866 August Kekulé proposes structure of
benzene.
benzene.