FARADAY, M. (MICHAEL). - THE FIRST PERFORMED SUBSTITUTION REACTION IN CHEMISTRY.

On two new compounds of Chlorine and Carbon, and on a new compound of Iodine, Carbon, and Hydrogen. By Mr. Faraday, ChemicalAssistent in the Royal Institution. Read December 21, 1820.

(London, W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, 1821). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions" 1821 - Part I. Pp. 47-74. Clean and fine.

First appearance of Faraday's first breakthrough in chemistry as he here synthesized for the first time chloro-carbons.

"In 1820 he (Faraday) produced the first known compounds of chlorine and carbon, C2Cl6 and C2Cl4. These compounds had been produced by the substitution of chlorine for hydrogen in "olefiant gas", our modern ethylene. This was the first substitution reaction; such reactions, in the hands of Charles Gerhardt and August Laurent in the 1840's, were to be used as a serious challenge to the dualistic electrochemical theories of J.J. Berzelius." (DSB IV, p. 531).
Parkinson "Breakthrough" 1820 C.

Order-nr.: 43117