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History of Organic Chemistry
1800s
Jon Jacob Berzelius
1807
Introduced to explain the study of compounds derived from the living resources available in nature
He classified two chemical compounds
Organic
Inorganic
Swedish Chemist
Early Nineteenth Century
Friedrich Wöhler (1800-1882) Justus von Liebig (1803-1873)
Emergence of organic chemistry
Helped establish the constitution of newly isolated and synthesized carbon compounds
1828
Friedrich Wöhler
Father of Organic Chemistry
Proved the 'vital force' theory wrong by synthetically producing urea
Berzelius theory
Through experiments, he proved that
organic matter could be synthesized
in a laboratory without being
linked to life
Experimented
ammonium cyanate
(inorganic substance) and discovered that it could be converted into
urea
(organic substance)
through chemical processes
Synthesized
urea
by slowly evaporating a water solution of
ammonium cyanate
which he prepared by adding
silver cyanate
to
ammonium chloride
1865
Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz
Important breakthrough was discovering the organic structure of benzene ring
Due to benzene's unique circular shape with double bonds places at every other bond
all the bonds are of equal length
1865
He figure out the structure of benzene because of his dream
The dream was the snakes from his dream was twisting together until they formed a circle
Defined organic chemistry as the branch of chemistry dealing with carbon compounds
1874
Jacobus van't Hoff - Joseph-Achille Le Bel
Developed an organic molecule modeling system
Several advances in organic chemistry
Some compounds would react different due to its direction, typically up or down