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August 17th

Aleksandr Butlerov died on this day in 1886. Russian chemist whose theory of organic chemistry structure was an important step towards the modern understanding of organic chemistry. In 1861, he read a paper to a congress of German scientists in which he defined “chemical structure” as the “chemical bond of capacity for the mutual union of atoms into a complex substance.” Furthermore, “the chemical nature of a compound molecule is determined by the nature of its component parts, by their quantity and their chemical structure.” In his rules for determining the chemical structure of molecules, he recognized the character of radicals to retain their own structure. In his investigation of unsaturated compounds, he supported the idea of multiple bonds. He also worked distinguishing isomers.

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