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PROF. W. H. PERKIN chose “The Early History of the Synthesis of Closed Carbon Chains” as the subject of the first Pedler lecture, which he delivered before the Chemical Society on May 30. It was, he said, very difficult to appreciate the fact that not more than fifty years ago the idea was firmly fixed in the minds of chemists that organic compounds must be sharply divided into the group having open carbon chains and the group having six-membered rings. The lecturer gave an interesting account of his discussions, as a young student, with Victor Meyer and Baeyer regarding the possibility of preparing compounds containing rings composed of three, four, or five carbon atoms, and of his resolve to prosecute researches in that direction.
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Closed Carbon Chains in Organic Chemistry. Nature 123, 928 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123928a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123928a0