This student of Kekule postulated a centric formula of benzene and proposed a Spannung, or strain theory that helped explain why carbon rings of five or six atoms are so much more common than any other type.
This student of Kekule postulated a centric formula of benzene and proposed a Spannung, or strain theory that helped explain why carbon rings of five or six atoms are so much more common than any other type. His studies of polyacetylenes and oxonium salts led to his discovery of barbituric acids, the parent compounds of the barbituate sedatives. FTP, name this scientist who first determined the chemical structure of indigo, a German chemist who won the 1905 Nobel in Chemistry.
This student of Kekule postulated a centric formula of benzene and proposed a Spannung, or strain theory that helped explain why carbon rings of five or six atoms are so much more common than any other type.
Adolf von {Baeyer}