Material for 3rd Quarter of First Semester 2010

Lecture 18 timed (ppt)  2010 Audio
The material after slide 14 (Audio 30 min) is for this 3rd quarter of the course
(Yale chemistry and equipment 100 years ago and its alchemical roots; the Doctrine of Sympathies; Scheele's Laboratory)

Lecture 19 (10/13/10)
2010 Powerpoint (ppt) 2010 Audio (first 2.5 min. exclamations about Hg)
(Scheele's Acids; Oxygen; Lavoisier's Revolution: Nomenclature, Traité, Analysis, Elements, Measuring Gases, Radicals & Language, Measuring Heat)

Prerevolutionary contributions - Scheele

Lavoisier & the Chemical Revolution: Analysis

Portrait
Combustion of Phosphorus and Carbon
Quantitative Chemical "Formulae"
1789 Preface
Elements & Oxidation
How to Determine Gas Density
Calorimeter

Lecture 20 timed ppt  Lect 20 Audio

Combustion Analysis Lavoisier/Prout/Liebig/Dumas (1788-1841)

Liebig's Kaliapparat and the Etymology of K and Na (1831)
Distillation and the "Liebig" Condenser (1771)

Woehler/Berzelius Letters about Urea (1828)
Woehler's Urea Paper (1828)
Berzelius Coins the Term Isomeric (1830)
Woehler/Berzelius on Liebig, Isomerism, and Organic Chemistry (1830-1835)
Woehler/Liebig Discovery of Benzoyl Radical (1832)

Lecture 21 timed ppt   Lecture 21 Audio

Lecture 22 timed ppt  Lecture 22 Audio

Dumas's Panegyric on the Radical Theory (1837)
Berzelius on Dumas Substitution Theory (1838)
Simple Alkane Etymology
Woehler's Spoof on the Type Theory (1840)
Competing Views of Organic Chemistry (~1851)

Couper On a New Chemical Theory (1858)
Kirkintilloch Movie

Kekulé on the Superiority of his Sausage Formulae (1865)

Other Molecular Diagrams and Models (mid 1860s)
Cannizzaro, the Cautious Revolutionary on Models (1872)

Lecture 23 timed ppt  Lecture 23 Audio

Koerner Proves 6-Fold Symmetry of Benzene (1869)
Paternó's Tetrahedral Carbons (1869)

Lecture 24 timed ppt  Lecture 24 Audio

Lieben to Paternó on Atoms in Space (1869)

Lecture 25 timed ppt  Lecture 25 Audio

van't Hoff's Tetrahedral Carbon (configuration) (1875)
Kolbe's Criticism of van't Hoff (1877)
Your Teacher, a Later-Day Kolbe?

Lecture 26 timed ppt   Lecture 26 Audio

Fischer on Models and the Fischer Projection (1891)

Lecture 27 timed ppt  Lecture 27 Audio

Using asymmetric crystal growth to determine absolute configuration
Higher on the same webpage is an explanation of the Bijvoet anomalous dispersion method for which you are NOT responsible.

Lecture 28 timed ppt  Lecture 28 Audio