Question

Define - 1)vital force theory
2)wohler's synthesis

Only basic concepts

Answer 1

At one point, living organisms were also used to define organic and non-organic compounds. In what is called the vital force theory, it was believed that living organisms could create organic compounds from non-organic ones, and this was the only way for organic compounds to be created.

J.J. Berzelius came up with the vital force theory

BerzeliusThis chemical reaction was discovered in 1828 by Friedrich Wöhler in an attempt to synthesize ammonium cyanate. It is considered the starting point of modern organic chemistry. Although the Wöhler reaction concerns the conversion of ammonium cyanate, this salt appears only as an (unstable) intermediate. Wöhler demonstrated the reaction in his original publication with different sets of reactants: a combination of cyanic acid and ammonia, a combination of silver cyanate and ammonium chloride, a combination of lead cyanate and ammonia and finally from a combination of mercury cyanate and cyanatic ammonia (which is again cyanic acid with ammonia).[2]