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Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings. -- Victor Grignard
Life began three and a half billion years ago, necessarily about as simple as it could be, because life arose spontaneously from the organic compounds in the primeval oceans. -- Stephen Jay Gould
As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it. -- Otto Wallach
We define organic chemistry as the chemistry of carbon compounds. -- August Kekule
Organic Chemistry has become a vast rubbish heap of puzzling and bewildering compounds. -- J. Norman Collie
The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition. -- Victor Grignard
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