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Textbook Forum
Wöhler's Synthesis of Urea: How Do the Textbooks Report It?
Paul S. Cohen
Chemistry Department, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ 08650-4700

Stephen M. Cohen
Department of Chemistry, Rutgers University, PO Box 939, Piscataway, NJ 08855-0939

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September 1996
Vol. 73 No. 9
p. 883
Abstract
Most general chemistry and organic chemistry textbooks describe Friedrich Wöhler's synthesis of urea as the moment when modern organic chemistry was born. We surveyed 35 modern and classic texts to learn what each noted of Wöhler's work. These books do not agree about the exact nature of Wöhler's experiment and its significance.

See Letter re: this article.
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 J. Chem. Educ. 1996 73 883.
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February 21, 2006
Link to Letter added (May 2004).
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