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03378aam a2200397 i 4500 001 7CE75F8A9E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231219010058 008 220816t20232023maua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022033267 020 $a 0262545543 020 $a 9780262545549 035 $a (OCoLC)1347428551 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d C8F $d YDX $d MTH $d LHL $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QD262 $b .J33 2023 100 1 $a Jackson, Catherine M., $e author. 245 10 $a Molecular world : $b making modern chemistry / $c Catherine M. Jackson. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The MIT Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xii, 444 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 490 0 $a Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology 520 $a According to existing histories, theory drove chemistry's remarkable nineteenth-century development. In Molecular World, Catherine M. Jackson shows instead how novel experimental approaches combined with what she calls "laboratory reasoning" enabled chemists to bridge wet chemistry and abstract concepts and, in so doing, create the molecular world. Jackson introduces a series of practice-based breakthroughs that include chemistry's move into lampworked glassware, the field's turn to synthesis and subsequent struggles to characterize and differentiate the products of synthesis, and the gradual development of institutional chemical laboratories, an advance accelerated by synthesis and the dangers it introduced. Jackson's historical reassessment emerges from the investigation of alkaloids by German chemists Justus Liebig, August Wilhelm Hofmann, and Albert Ladenburg. Stymied in his own research, Liebig steered his student Hofmann into pioneering synthesis as a new investigative method. Hofmann's practice-based laboratory reasoning produced a major theoretical advance, but he failed to make alkaloids. That landmark fell to Ladenburg, who turned to cutting-edge theory only after his successful synthesis. In telling the story of these scientists and their peers, Jackson reveals organic synthesis as the ground chemists stood upon to forge a new relationship between experiment and theory--with far-reaching consequences for chemistry as a discipline--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [397]-427) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: molecular world -- 1. Analysis mania -- 2. Sure reagent -- 3. Glassware revolution -- 4. Capital chemist -- 5. Laboratory reasoning -- 6. Ammonia type -- 7. Chemical identity crisis -- 8. Laboratory landscape -- 9. The science of synthesis -- Conclusion: making modern chemistry 650 0 $a Organic compounds $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Chemistry, Organic. 650 0 $a Alkaloids. 650 7 $a Alkaloids. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00805398 650 7 $a Chemistry, Organic. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00853501 650 7 $a Organic compounds $x Synthesis. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01047668 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Jackson, Catherine M. $t Molecular world $d Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023] $z 9780262374484 $w (DLC) 2022033268 830 0 $a Transformations (M.I.T. Press) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219013359.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7CE75F8A9E3C11EE84E191EF36ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search