- sweetish-smelling liquid first isolated in 1825 by Michael Faraday from the oily residue that had collected in gas lines

- this formula has so few hydrogen atoms for the number of carbon atoms that an unsaturated molecule would seem likely

- Kekule proposed a ring structure involving alternating single and double bonds, years later Dewa

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Aromatic Compounds, Dewar Ladenburg, Reactions Benzene, Michael Faraday, Structure Benzene, potassium permanganate, simplest aromatic hydrocarbon, molecule benzene, benzene rings, aromatic hydrocarbon, simplest aromatic, bromine benzene,
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