Kekule, Karl

When in 1958 the centennial of Kekule s and Couper s theory of chemical structure was commemorated, the Soviet Union waited three more years for their corresponding celebrations, for Soviet scholars dated the theory to a landmark paper in 1861 by one of their countrymen. The author of that paper, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Butlerov (1828-86), was a student of Nikolai Zinin and Karl Klaus at the University of Kazan, and was named professor there in 1857. During the mid-1850s he was already inclined toward the reform camp, but Butlerov s full development awaited his first trip to western Europe (from August 1857 to July... 

In his biography of Baeyer, Karl Schmorl asserted that Kekule had described his theory to Baeyer early on, that Baeyer had urged Kekule to publish immediately, but that Kekule had hesitated. Schmorl s warrant for these statements is not clear. Schmorl, Baeyer (1952), 39. 

Kekule, Friedrich August (1829-1896), 287 Kielmeyer, Karl Friedrich (1765 1844), 251 253... 

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