GK QUESTION#3494
Assertion (A): Berthelot was among the nineteenth-century pioneers of artificial organic synthesis.
Reason (R): Lavoisier proved that organic compounds could not be synthesised from inorganic substances.
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C. A is true, but R is false
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Marcellin Berthelot was one of the nineteenth-century pioneers of organic synthesis, so A is true in that historical sense. Lavoisier did not prove that organic compounds could not be made from inorganic materials; Wöhler’s urea synthesis is a counterexample to that supposed impossibility. R is false.