https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound Organic compound simply means that there are carbon-hydrogen bond

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_compound Organic compound simply means that there are carbon-hydrogen bonds or carbon-carbon bonds in a compound. The view that this requires "life" was a legitimate theory back in 1800s and was disproved in the late 1820s. (See the wiki link for more details)