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  2. August Kekulé - Wikipedia

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    Kekulé structure of benzene with alternating double bonds. Kekulé's most famous work was on the structure of benzene. [3] 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. [11]

  3. The Kekulé Problem - Wikipedia

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    McCarthy analyzes a famous dream of August Kekulé's as a model of the unconscious mind and the origins of language. He theorizes about the nature of the unconscious mind and its separation from human language. The unconscious, according to McCarthy, "is a machine for operating an animal" and that "all animals have an unconscious."

  4. Benzene - Wikipedia

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    Benzene is an organic chemical compound with the molecular formula C 6 H 6. The benzene molecule is composed of six carbon atoms joined in a planar hexagonal ring with one hydrogen atom attached to each. Because it contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms, benzene is classed as a hydrocarbon.

  5. Clar's rule - Wikipedia

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    Clar's rule states that for a benzenoid polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (i.e. one with only hexagonal rings), the resonance structure with the largest number of disjoint aromatic π-sextets is the most important to characterize its chemical and physical properties. Such a resonance structure is called a Clar structure. In other words, a ...

  6. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    The chemical structure of benzene The scientist Friedrich August Kekulé discovered the seemingly impossible chemical structure of benzene (C 6 H 6 ) in 1836, when he had a dream of a group of snakes swallowing their tails .

  7. Thermal rearrangement of aromatic hydrocarbons - Wikipedia

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    The difference between the two ring contractions is minute however, so it has not been determined which is favored over the other. Both mechanisms are shown as follows for the ring contraction of biphenylene: The first involves a 1,2-hydrogen shift to a carbene followed by a 1,2-carbon shift on the same C-C bond but in opposite directions.

  8. Berberine, a plant compound traditionally used in herbal medicine, is today commonly stocked on the shelves of health food stores and pharmacies as a supplement. Beyond weight loss, berberine also ...

  9. Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins - Wikipedia

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    The skeletal formula and substituent numbering scheme of the parent compound dibenzo-1,4-dioxin. The structure of dibenzo-1,4-dioxin consists of two benzene rings joined by two oxygen bridges. This makes the compound an aromatic diether. The name dioxin formally refers to the central dioxygenated ring, which is stabilized by the two flanking ...