Physical Science

Unit 5: Diversity of Matter

Freidrich Kekule

Project Type: Career
Freidrich August Kekule is known as the principle founder of structural organic chemistry. After researching his contribution to chemistry and theory, develop 12 trivia cards about Kekule and present them in a question-and-answer-trivia format.

Resources:
Visit these sites to help you research Freidrich August Kekule's contribution to chemistry.

A Scientist and Dreamer
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/chemistry/institutes/1992/Kekule.html

Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_Kekul%E9_von_Stradonitz

The Originator of the Structural Theory of Organic Chemistry
http://www.ulearntoday.com/magazine/physics_article1.jsp?FILE=kekule

Sausage and Structural Formulae
http://classes.yale.edu/chem125a/125/history99/5Valence/Kekule/Kekule.html

Genealogy
http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~mainzv/Web_Genealogy/Info/kekulefa.pdf#search='friedrich%20august%20kekule'

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