2021-12-18

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Chemistry in a Nutshell

Can you solve this puzzle? It only took air pressures 25x higher than Earth's, super hot temperatures, X-rays, and more to figure out the structure of benzene.

This is part 2 of The Benzene Puzzle.

Part 1: /youtube/video/W2BysSrl7Hs

Part 3: /youtube/video/twvmHdplbFA

Time Stamps:

0:00 Introduction

0:31 Paul Sabatier - Hydrogenation of Benzene

1:56 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - X-Ray Crystallography and Electron Diffraction

2:31 Molecular Model of Kekulé Structure of Benzene

4:27 Delocalized Electrons

4:47 Line Structure of Benzene

Citations:

Organic Chemistry, 8th ed. Bruice, Paula Yurkanis. 2016. Pearson. Chapter 8

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