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Discovery of Mauveine
- When
- 1856
- Where
- Cable Street, east London
Perkin discovered mauveine serendipitously in 1856 while attempting to synthesize quinine.
During the Easter vacation in 1856, Perkin performed experiments in his crude laboratory on Cable Street. He failed to synthesize quinine but produced mauveine, an aniline purple dye. This discovery was serendipitous and led to the first commercial synthetic organic dye.
Sources
- Mauveine Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-10
- William Henry Perkin Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-02
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