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1885 W. H. Perkin in Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 47 806 It was thought that the simplest method would be to regard the saturated hydrocarbons themselves as multiples of methylene, CH₂, and thus name them di-, tri-, tetra-, penta-, &c., methylene, as is easiest seen from the following table:—..Tetra-methylene.

1898 J. Wade Introd. Study Org. Chem. xxxv. 219 The tetramethylene compound..is formed by the reduction of ethylene cyanide with sodium amalgam in alcoholic solution.

1909 C. A. Keane Mod. Org. Chem. v. 63 The simplest cyclic compounds containing four and five carbon atoms are the hydrocarbons tetramethylene, C₄C₈, and pentamethylene, C₅H₁₀.

1944 S. J. Smith Princ. Org. Chem. x. 197 Both their methods of preparation and their parachors..show them to be cyclic compounds containing no unsaturated linkage:..Cyclobutane tetramethylene.

1966 Nomencl. Org. Chem.: A & B (I.U.P.A.C.) (ed. 2) 16 The names of bivalent radicals derived from normal alkanes by removal of a hydrogen atom from each of the two terminal carbon atoms of the chain are ethylene, trimethylene, tetramethylene, etc.

1971 N. L. Allinger et al. Org. Chem. iv. 63 Frequently occurring hydrocarbon groupings that have more than one site for the attachment of substituents are also given common or trivial names..ICH₂CH₂CH₂CH₂I 1,4-Diiodobutane (Tetra~methylene iodide).