The center of the liealgebra is the liealgebra of the center, but what about not connected Liegroups?

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Let $G$ be a connected liegroup. It holds $$Z(Lie(G))=Lie(Z(G)),$$ where $Lie(G)$ is the liealgebra of $G$ and $Z(\_)$ denotes the center of the group resp. the algebra.

I am searching for an counterexample, which demonstrates, that the precondition of beeing connected is necessary.

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Take $G=O(2,\mathbf R)$, whose $1$ dimensional Lie algebra is commutative, and therefore equal to its center. The center of $G$ however is discrete, so it has $0$ dimensional Lie algebra.