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Hydrogen Carbon
Oxygen Nitrogen
Dalton (1803)
Ternary “atoms”
Dalton (1803)
• use first letter of
Latin name of element
N
H
C
O
S hydrogen
carbon
oxygen
nitrogen
sulfur
antimony stibnum Sb
tin stannum Sn
sodium natrium Na
potassium kalium K
Why Latin?
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(most electropositive) Potassium
Dualism … the electrochemical theory
Berzelius
Dualism exemplified
+ - + -
K O S 3O
+ -
KO SO3
KO,SO3
Berzelius
The dilemma in the early 19th century
silver cyanate
AgCNO
Liebig (1823)
silver fulminate
AgCNO
Friedrich Wöhler Justus Liebig
(1800-1882) (1803 - 1873)
Isomerism
Faraday (1825)
Wöhler (1828)
Benzoyl hydride C 7H 5O - H
(Benzoic acid)
Octahedral
spinels
AB2O4 Magnetite
A=B=Fe
Minerals with
similar
chemical
compositions
have the same
Eilhard Mitscherlich Franklinite
crystal
(1794-1863) structure. A=Zn, Fe, Mn
B=Fe, Mn
Substitution Theory (1834)
Metalepsy or exchange
C2H4O2 + 3Cl2
Jean Baptiste Dumas
(1800-1884) C2HCl3O2 + 3HCl
Substitution (Nucleus) Theory (1835)
Copulae (Paarlinge)
Auguste Laurent
(1807-1853)
Preparation of Alkylamines (1849)
H C2H5
N H N H
H H
ammonia ethylamine
C2H5 C2H5
N C2H5 N C2H5
H C2H5
diethylamine triethylamine
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
(1818-1892)
The Water Type (1850-1852)
butyl alcohol
Acetic Acid
August Kekulé
(1829-1896) Lego Acetic Acid
“Bonds” Appear in Structures (1858)
Acetic Acid
Acetic Acid
Joseph Loschmidt
(1821 - 1895)
A. W. Hofmann’s Physical Models (1865)
Note planar
arrangement of bonds
about carbon
H - monovalent
O - divalent
N - trivalent
C - tetravalent Is
different from
Cl
H
H C Cl
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Cl C Cl
(1818-1892)
H
H
?
Van’t Hoff’s Tetrahedral Model (1874)
Cl
Are there two dichloromethanes?
H
Cl H or ever found.
Cl
A 3D tetrahedral H
arrangement of hydrogen H C Cl
and chlorine with Cl C Cl
carbon in the center H
predicts only one isomer. H
Van’t Hoff’s Tetrahedral Model (1874)
Cl Cl
Br Br
C C
I H H I
Van’t Hoff’s Tetrahedral Model (1874)
Planar bromochloroiodomethane requires
three pairs of enantiomers.
H H H
I C Br I C Cl Cl C I
Cl Br Br
H H H
Cl C Br Br C Cl Br C I
I I Cl
The End
…for a while