Important OrgChem Comtributions

Justus von Liebig

Father of the fertilizer industry

Micheal Faraday

Benzene discovery by pyrolysis of whale oil

Friedrich Wohler

Synthesized urea from ammonium cyanate (Wohler synthesis)

Edward Frankland

Valence and father of organomettalic chem

August Kekule

Benzene structure

Archibald Scott Couper

Carbon tetravalency and can make chains

Jacobus Vant Hoff

Stereochemistry father and first novel receiver for chemistry

Gilbert Lewis

Covalent bond and electron pairs, Lewis dot structure and CBT

Linus Pauling

EN scale and founder of Quantum Chem, orbital hybridization

Kathleen Lonsdale

Xray Crystallography , Benzene c-c bonds are equal length

Erich Huckel

Huckel method for MO calculations

Victor Grignard

RMgX for forming new C-C

Emil Fischer

Fischer esterification, and Fischer projection