Who showed that heating silver cyanide (an inorganic compound) with ammonium chloride (another inorganic compound) produced urea without the aid of any living organism or part of a living organism, in 1828?
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
The correct answer is option 2 i.e. Friedrich Wohler.
- Friedrich Wohler was the first to synthesize an organic compound from an inorganic substance in 1928.
- In Frierdrich Wohler's experiment, often known as Wohler's synthesis, ammonium cyanate is converted into urea.
- Ammonium cyanate is a salt that is very unstable, and it usually occurs as an intermediate compound in a chemical reaction.
- He synthesized urea by slowly evaporating a water solution of ammonium cyanate, which he had prepared by adding silver cyanate to ammonium chloride