Most organic chemical compounds contain loops of six carbon atoms called benzene rings. The nineteenth-century German chemist August Kekulé claimed to have pictured the ring structure of benzene ...

August Kekulé had been pondering the most pressing question in his field at the time: what was the chemical structure of a curious compound called benzene? As Kekulé slumbered, the atoms danced ...

An explanation of how these atoms are joined to form benzene would have to wait until August Kekule’s epic publication in 1865 in which he described the structure of benzene as being six carbons ...

the nineteenth-century German chemist August Kekulé claimed that he hit upon the ring-like structure of the benzene molecule after he dreamed of a snake eating its own tail. McCarthy calls this ...

August Kekulé Dreams of Ouroboros August Kekulé’s discovery of benzene’s hexagonal shape ... off the corners — solving the molecular structure of the flammable, sweet-scented chemical.