100 Years of Organic Chemistry

Emil Fischer - “The Proof of Glucose”

Louis Pasteur and Jacob van’t Hoff - “Chiromania”

Mikhail Tsvet -

“Chromatographica”

Robert Woodward and Albert Eschenmoser -

“Vitamin B-12”

August Kekule -

“Kontinent de Benzene”

“The Tragic Figure of the 20th Century”

Butlerov, Favorski, and Reformatsky -

“Prisoners of Kazan”

Markovnikov and Zaitsev -

“Feuding Russian Rulemakers”

Friedrich Wohler and Justus von Liebig-

“Organic Creation Myths”

Hermann Kolbe and Adolphe Wurtz -

“Chemical Nationalism”

Alexander Williamson-

“The Ether Synthesis”

August von Hoffman -

“Our Chemical Hero”

Charles Gerhardt and Auguste Laurent -

“The Outsiders”

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“100 Years of Organic Chemistry”