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[48] [49] It was the German chemist Carl Gräbe who, in 1869, first used the prefixes ortho-, meta-, para- to denote specific relative locations of the substituents on a di-substituted aromatic ring (viz, naphthalene). [50] In 1870, the German chemist Viktor Meyer first applied Gräbe's nomenclature to benzene. [51]