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‎Sur une nouvelle Classe de Radicaux Organiques.‎

‎Paris, Victor Masson, 1855. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, raised bands, gilt spine. Light wear along edges. Light wear to top of spine. A few scartches to binding.Small stamps on verso of titlepage. In ""Annales de Chimie et de Physique"", 3me Series - Tome 44. Pp. 512 pp. a. 2 folded engraved plates. (entire volume offered). Light scattered brownspots. Wurtz's paper: pp. 275-313.‎

‎First printing of an importent paper in the history of organic chemistry in which Wurtz describes his methodof syntheesizing longchain hydrocarbons by using hydrocarbon iodides and sodium, a method essential for the synthesis of a series of hydrocarbons.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1855 C.Charles Adolphe Wurtz, was born at Strasbourg 1817. For many years he was Professor of Chemistry at the Ecole de Médicine and at Sorbonne in Paris. He was known not only for his researches in organic chemistry but also for his many literary works. He was editor of a Dictionnaire de Chemie Pure et Appliquée, and after 1868 one of the editors of the Annalen der Chemie et de Physique. He died in Paris in 1884.‎