do organic- compounds can be synthesized from inorganic compounds?illustrare with example [closed]








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Do you think that organic compound can be synthesized from inorganic compounds? Illustrate with example.




Yes, of course! Friedrich Wöhler, a German chemist, synthesized Urea, a clearly organic molecule since it is produced in every animal and human body, in 1828.


He used different sets of inorganic substances: a combination of cyanic acid and ammonia, a combination of silver cyanate and ammonium chloride, a combination of lead cyanate and ammonia and a combination of mercury cyanate and cyanatic ammonia (which is again cyanic acid with ammonia).


Ever before humanity was sure that organic substances could only be formed by god. Wöhler proved they were wrong.


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