- Organic chemistry is essentially a life sustaining chemistry in the world of biology
- Like DNA, protiens, carbohydrates, lipids(fats)
- These are polymeric compounds belong to the category of organic compounds
- During $18^{th}$ century, there was a theory named vital force theory given by Berzelius in 1780
- Early on, organic molecules were typically isolated from nature and such a theory was believed until 1828