What was the first synthetic molecule?
Mauveine
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Mauveine, also known as aniline purple and Perkin's mauve, was one of the first synthetic dye.[1][2] It was discovered serendipitously by William Henry Perkin in 1856. It is also among the first dyes to have been mass-produced.[3]