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1858. Kekulé proposed the earliest ideas about valency by suggesting the elements had a preferred number of chemical bonds. Couper developed the first chemical structure diagrams, ways of representing structure on paper. Butlerov was the first to use 'structure' in chemistry and to recognize that chemical compounds are not a random cluster of atoms and functional groups, but rather had a definite order defined by the valency of the elements composing

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