A Swedish chemist Berzelius proposed that a 'vital force' was needed to produce organic compounds. T

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A Swedish chemist Berzelius proposed that a 'vital force' was needed to produce organic compounds. The first setback to this notion came when

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The vital force theory was discarded when Friedrich Wöhler synthesised urea, an organic compound, from ammonium cyanate in the laboratory.