Sunday, January 24, 2010

QUESTION 117


WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS?
EXPLAIN.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

benzene--kekule's dream--a snake seizing its own tail



-------------------------v.chandrashekar

Rijo P. said...

kekule's dream of benzene ring

Rijo P. said...

kekule's dream of benzene ring

Kaushik said...

Kekule's benzene sturcture, whihc he dreamt of - as he thought of a snake eating its own tail

Gaurav Radhakrishnan said...

Basically, the German Scientist Friedrich August Kekule, who was reserching about the structure of benzene, had a dream of the snake swallowing it's own tail. This led him to say the benzene had a ring chain structure with alternating single and double bonds.

Arvind said...

Kekule's Benzene structure.