Compare with inorganic compound .Compounds that contain carbon chemically bound to hydrogen. They often contain other elements (particularly O, N, halogens, or S). Organic compounds were once thought to be produced only by living things. We now know that any organic compound can be synthesized in the laboratory (although this can be extremely difficult in practice!)
Organic chemistry is concerned with the compounds of carbon. Biochemistry is concerned with compounds of carbon that crawl. -Mike Adams