The Young J. H. van 't Hoff: The Background to the Publication of his 1874 Pamphlet on the Tetrahedral Carbon Atom, Together with a New English Translation

Ramberg, Peter J.; Somsen, Geert

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“…47 The effect is clear: relying on the translation only, one obtains the false impression that Le Bel actually used Naumann's term. Although beyond the scope of the present article, an analysis of the influence of translators on the language of science might be well illuminating (Ramberg and Somsen discussed 48 the complexities and problems involved in the translations of the Voorstel into French, German, and English).…”

Section: Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847-1930)mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The major advance in the field during the last few decades of the 19th century was the proposal of the tetrahedral carbon atom as the explanation for optical isomerism in carbon compounds put forth independently and nearly simultaneously in the mid-1870s 28 by the Dutch and French chemists Van 't Hoff' and Le Bel, respectively. However, neither of them used Naumann's terms in their publication setting forth the proposal (see below), and their ideas were nearly completely ignored 29,30 until the late 1880s by most chemists. As a result, in general, enantiomorphism and its close congeners began to be accepted in the context of stereochemistry in Europe only around the turn of the century.…”

Section: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A French translation 34 was published in 1874 in Holland; in 1901, the first English translation, 35 by Richardson, appeared, and recently, Ramberg and Somser produced a new English translation. 36 Finally, in 1912, Cohen published a German translation. 37 Naumann's enantio terms are also absent in the translations.…”

Section: Jacobus Henricus Van 'T Hoff (1852-1911)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Carl Friedrich Naumann and the introduction of enantio terminology: A review and analysis on the 150th anniversary

Gál

2006

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Enantiomorphism and enantiomorphous were the first enantio-based terms, introduced 150 years ago, by Carl Friedrich Naumann, a German crystallographer, to refer to non-superposable mirror-image crystals. The terminology was not adopted by Pasteur, the discoverer of molecular chirality, and was not embraced at first in the stereochemical context, until it was accepted in 1877 by Van't Hoff in the German edition of his proposal for the tetrahedral asymmetric carbon atom. In the 1890s the use of enantio terms began to spread in the research literature, and many new derivatives of Naumann's original two terms were subsequently introduced. Problems in the usage of some of the terms are often found in the literature, e.g., enantiomorphism is sometimes confused with chirality; enantiomeric is often misused; the meaning of some of the many derived terms, e.g., enantiosymmetric, enantioposition, etc., is unclear. All in all, Naumann should be remembered as the creator of essential terminology in the realm of chirality.

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Section: Joseph Achille Le Bel (1847-1930)mentioning

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Section: Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)mentioning

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Section: Jacobus Henricus Van 'T Hoff (1852-1911)mentioning

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Carl Friedrich Naumann and the introduction of enantio terminology: A review and analysis on the 150th anniversary

Gál

2006

Chirality

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“…The first chemist who proposed in 1874 that molecules have a three-dimensional shape was Jacobus van't Hoff, [1] the cofounder of the field of physical chemistry. [2] He proposed that the three-dimensional shape of molecules is responsible for many of their chemical and physical properties, like the optical rotation of light by molecules, and his novel ideas led to the development of stereochemistry.…”

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The Reaction Microscope: Imaging and Pulse Shaping Control in Photodynamics

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Herein, we review the current capabilities and potential of advanced single-particle imaging techniques to study photodynamics in isolated molecules. These reaction microscopes are able to measure the full three-dimensional energy and angular distribution of (correlated) particles such as electrons and molecular fragments ejected after photoexcitation of molecules. In particular, we discuss the performance and capabilities of a novel photoelectron-photoion coincidence imaging spectrometer constructed at LaserLaB Amsterdam. This microscope was developed for the study of nonadiabatic effects in ultrafast time-resolved experiments. It is specifically targeted at optimal control studies of photodynamics to foster and advance our understanding of mechanisms in optimal control with shaped ultrafast laser pulses. We review a few recent experimental results illustrating the wealth of detailed information that can be obtained in such imaging experiments about the interplay between (shaped) laser fields, molecular dynamics, ionization processes and competing multichannel pathways. Furthermore, the recently developed photoelectron-circular-dichroism imaging technique to detect enantiomers and to study chirality effects will be discussed, as a further illustration of the potential of modern reaction microscopes in stereochemistry.

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“…Later, he used the tetrahedron as a graphic representation of the valence arrangement around the carbon atom and also used this model to explain the physical property of optical activity. (Ramberg & Somsen, 2001) A compound containing a four different substituted carbon -described by Van't Hoff as asymmetric carbon -would be capable of existing in two distinctly different nonsuperimposable forms. Finally, he stated that the asymmetric carbon atom was the cause of molecular asymmetry and optical activity.…”

Section: Conformational Analysis: Early History and Importancementioning

confidence: 99%