Chemical structure, spatial arrangement : the early history of stereochemistry, 1874-1914 / Peter J. Ramberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramberg, Peter J.

Series:

Science, technology, and culture, 1700-1945

Science, technology and culture, 1700-1945

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stereochemistry--History.

Stereochemistry.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 399 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2003]

Contents:

1 Introduction: 'Van 't Hoff's Gold Mines' 1

2 The Historical Development of Organic Chemistry to 1874 11

The Institutional Structure of Nineteenth-century German Chemistry 12

The Development of Theoretical Organic Chemistry 15

Methods and Methodology in Organic Chemistry 28

The Limits of Structure Theory, 1864-1873 39

3 The Tetrahedral Carbon Atom, 1874-1877 53

Van 't Hoff and Le Bel, 1874 54

The Evolution of Van 't Hoff's Theory, 1874-1877 66

4 Initial Reception of the Tetrahedron, 1874-1887 87

Public and Private Reaction to the Tetrahedron 87

Adolf von Baeyer and the Strain Theory, 1885 101

Configuration organischer Molekule, 1886 105

Dix annees dans l'histoire d'une theorie, 1887 109

5 Johannes Wislicenus and Molecular Dynamics 111

'Raumliche Anordnung', 1887 113

Experimental Support for the Theory, 1887-1889 121

Initial Reception 133

Atomism and Methodology in Wislicenus' Chemistry 148

6 Victor Meyer: The New Science of Stereochemistry 157

Meyer and the Tetrahedral Carbon Atom, 1875-1887 159

The Benzildioximes 162

Spokesman for the New Science of Stereochemistry, 1889-1890 179

The Nature of Valence and Bonding 182

7 Arthur Hantzsch: The Stereochemistry of Nitrogen 193

The Hantzsch/Werner Theory 196

The Configuration of the Benzildioximes 214

Other Spatial Models of the Nitrogen Atom, 1888-1893 222

Adolf Claus versus Meyer and Hantzsch: Is Stereochemistry Actually Chemistry? 231

8 Emil Fischer and Carbohydrate Chemistry, 1884-1891 243

The Carbohydrates, 1884-1891 245

Sugars and Enzymes, 1894 268

The Significance of Sugar Chemistry for Fischer 272

9 Alfred Werner and Coordination Chemistry, 1893-1914 277

The Coordination Theory, 1893-1907 280

The Controversy with Jorgensen, 1893-1899 305

Optically Active Coordination Compounds, 1897-1914 313

The Nature of Stereochemistry 322

The Nature of Chemistry 335

1 Tjaden Modderman to Neighbors of Van 't Hoff's Parents, 1874 353

2 Van 't Hoff's Preface to La chimie dans l'espace, 1875 355

3 Felix Hermann and Johannes Wislicenus to Van 't Hoff, 1875 357

4 Wislicenus' Foreword to the First Edition of Die Lagerung der Atome im Raume, 1877 361

5 Victor Meyer's Letters to Baeyer Concerning the Strain Theory, 1885 365

6 'Translation' of Van 't Hoff's Sign Notation for Compounds with Multiple Asymmetric Carbon Atoms into Modern Fischer Projections 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754603970

OCLC:

49833393