This page discusses Friedrich Kekulé, a 19th-century chemist who conceptualized benzene's cyclic structure, inspired by a dream. Benzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon with six hydrogen atoms and stabilizin...This page discusses Friedrich Kekulé, a 19th-century chemist who conceptualized benzene's cyclic structure, inspired by a dream. Benzene, an aromatic hydrocarbon with six hydrogen atoms and stabilizing delocalized pi electrons, has varied nomenclature based on its substituents. Basic naming involves alkyl groups, while arrangements with multiple substituents are identified by position numbers or ortho, meta, and para prefixes.
