What is an organic molecule synthesized by plants?
An organic compound is any member of a large class of chemical compounds whose molecules contain carbon. For historical reasons discussed below, a few types of compounds such as carbonates, simple oxides of carbon and cyanides, as well as the allotropes of carbon, are considered inorganic. The division between “organic” and “inorganic” carbon compounds while “useful in organizing the vast subject of chemistry…is somewhat arbitrary”[1]. Organic chemistry is the science concerned with all aspects of organic compounds. Organic synthesis is the methodology of their preparation. History The name “organic” is historical, dating back to the 19th century, when it was believed that organic compounds could only be synthesized in living organisms through vis vitalis – the “life-force”. The theory that organic compounds were fundamentally different from those that were “inorganic”, that is, not synthesized through a life-force, came under question in 1824 when Friedrich Wöhler synthesized oxalic
