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, Importance of Organic Chemistry
Where can you find organic chemistry?
• Living Organisms
• Medicine
• Food
• Plastic Polymers
• Petrochemicals
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, Origins of Organic Chemistry
• Toben Bergman (1770)
- First to make distinction between organic and inorganic chemistry
- “organic” substances → derived from living organisms
- “inorganic” substances → found in minerals
- Organic compounds were low-melting, difficult to isolate and purify vs
high-melting inorganic compounds