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Acetic Acid’s Structure

November 8, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 45

“When Science Went International” (C&EN, Sept. 6, page 60) shows the 19 molecular formulas for acetic acid listed in Kekulé’s textbook of 1859 without pointing out that Josef Loschmidt was the first to show the structure of acetic acid correctly as schema 21 in his 1861 “Chemische Studien.”

Alfred Bader
Milwaukee

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