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The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry

Memoirs by Pasteur, Van’t Hoff, Lebel, and Wislicenus General Contents Preface The Asymmetry of Naturally Occurring Organic Compounds. By Louis Pasteur Biographical Sketch of Pasteur Structural Formulas in Space. By J.H. van’t Hoff Biographical Sketch of van’t Hoff Relation between Atomic Formulas of Organic Compounds and the Rotary Power of their Solutions. By J.A. LeBel Biographical Sketch of Lebel Space …

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Organic Chemistry and the Idea of the Molecule

Jean Baptiste Dumas

Originally published in Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences Vol. 4 in 1904. When Berzelius first promulgated his binary theory he was careful to restrict its unmodified application to the compounds of the inorganic world. At that time, and for a long time thereafter, it was supposed that substances of organic nature had some properties that kept them …

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Thèse de Chimie

Recherches sur la capacité de saturation de l’acide arsénieux. Etudes des arsénites de potasse, de soude et d’ammoniaque. présentées A LA FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE PARIS, LE AOUT 1847, Par M. L. PASTEUR, Ancien élève de l’Ecole Normale, agrégé préparateur de Chimie à cette Ecole. PARIS, IMPRIMERIE DE BACHELIER, Rue du Jardinet, ia. Un des travaux qui ont été les …

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