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But I would argue it doesnt necessarily answer the question. Without going into why he chose those suffixes, it doesnt really inform why Hoffman didnt choose any other possible notation for the suffixes. I would also say we cant really avoid paraphrasing in science. Almost every scientific article I have read has had some citation of prior work that requires summarizing that work and its implications. You definitely still have to cite your reference in some way, but just pointing to a reference on its own usually isnt enough.More
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I found the following information through a website linked to Yale University.
The naming structure seems to have evolved from some of the early nonsystematic names given to hydrocarbons. It started with Dumas who in 1835 came up with the name Methylene for the $\ce{CH2}$ radical. The "-ene" suffix is a Greek feminine patronymic which was used to denote that Methylene was the "daughter of" (derived from) the "spirit of wood" or what we now call methanol (Dumas believed methanol had the formula $\ce{CH2\cdot H2O}$).
The naming structure caught on for ethylene since it was related to ethyl(even though the meth- in Methylene came from a Greek work for wine and not the numerical prefix used in methyl).
When the use of these feminine patronymics (-ene, -ine, -one) became common during the 1860s, Hoffman proposed making a consistent nomenclature that followed the standard progression of vowels: a e i o u. This led to the suffixes -ane, -ene, -ine(-yne), -one, and -une to refer to increasingly unsaturated hydrocarbons.
Since -one was already in use for ketone structures, only the first three suffixes caught on.
I found the following information through a website linked to Yale University.
The naming structure seems to have evolved from some of the early nonsystematic names given to hydrocarbons. It started with Dumas who in 1835 came up with the name Methylene for the $\ce{CH2}$ radical. The "-ene" suffix is a Greek feminine patronymic which was used to denote that Methylene was the "daughter of" (derived from) the "spirit of wood" or what we now call methanol (Dumas believed methanol had the formula $\ce{CH2\cdot H2O}$).
The naming structure caught on for ethylene since it was related to ethyl(even though the meth- in Methylene came from a Greek work for wine and not the numerical prefix used in methyl).
When the use of these feminine patronymics (-ene, -ine, -one) became common during the 1860s, Hoffman proposed making a consistent nomenclature that followed the standard progression of vowels: a e i o u. This led to the suffixes -ane, -ene, -ine(-yne), -one, and -une to refer to increasingly unsaturated hydrocarbons.
Since -one was already in use for ketone structures, only the first three suffixes caught on.
) was probaby co-coined by Dumas and Péligot ($\to$DP) in 1834. As you note, *-ene* is from Greek; however, the interpretation is a bit debatable (imo). DP believed that methylene formed the essential radical of methanol (or wood spirit). It would make more sense for wood spirit to be the daugther than the other way round. In Floods reference: *-ene* ... is a name-forming suffix; it has no real meaning in itself. $|$ ref: W. A. Flood, 1963, More
August Wilhelm Hofmann, of rearrangement and elimination fame, suggested the hydrocarbon systematic suffixes in 1866.
http://chem125-oyc.webspace.yale.edu/125/history99/5Valence/Nomenclature/alkanenames.html
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1745823414Y.0000000006
August Wilhelm Hofmann, of rearrangement and elimination fame, suggested the hydrocarbon systematic suffixes in 1866.
http://chem125-oyc.webspace.yale.edu/125/history99/5Valence/Nomenclature/alkanenames.html
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1179/1745823414Y.0000000006
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I found the following information through a website linked to Yale University.
The naming structure seems to have evolved from some of the early nonsystematic names given to hydrocarbons. It started with Dumas who in 1835 came up with the name Methylene for the $\ce{CH2}$ radical. The "-ene" suffix is a Greek feminine patronymic which was used to denote that Methylene was the "daughter of" (derived from) the "spirit of wood" or what we now call methanol (Dumas believed methanol had the formula $\ce{CH2\cdot H2O}$).
The naming structure caught on for ethylene since it was related to ethyl(even though the meth- in Methylene came from a Greek work for wine and not the numerical prefix used in methyl).
When the use of these feminine patronymics (-ene, -ine, -one) became common during the 1860s, Hoffman proposed making a consistent nomenclature that followed the standard progression of vowels: a e i o u. This led to the suffixes -ane, -ene, -ine(-yne), -one, and -une to refer to increasingly unsaturated hydrocarbons.
Since -one was already in use for ketone structures, only the first three suffixes caught on.
I found the following information through a website linked to Yale University.
The naming structure seems to have evolved from some of the early nonsystematic names given to hydrocarbons. It started with Dumas who in 1835 came up with the name Methylene for the $\ce{CH2}$ radical. The "-ene" suffix is a Greek feminine patronymic which was used to denote that Methylene was the "daughter of" (derived from) the "spirit of wood" or what we now call methanol (Dumas believed methanol had the formula $\ce{CH2\cdot H2O}$).
The naming structure caught on for ethylene since it was related to ethyl(even though the meth- in Methylene came from a Greek work for wine and not the numerical prefix used in methyl).
When the use of these feminine patronymics (-ene, -ine, -one) became common during the 1860s, Hoffman proposed making a consistent nomenclature that followed the standard progression of vowels: a e i o u. This led to the suffixes -ane, -ene, -ine(-yne), -one, and -une to refer to increasingly unsaturated hydrocarbons.
Since -one was already in use for ketone structures, only the first three suffixes caught on.
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