The first light was shone on organic chemistry when a German chemist named Wöhler created an organic compound without the ""vital spark"" of animal life. A fellow German named Kekulé began to propose how the molecules of organic compunds are arranged. All the atoms of carbon and a few other elements form covalent bonds, and two-dimensional diagrams of such bonds are shown.
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