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This site contains interactive 3D animations for some of the most important organic reactions covered during an undergraduate chemistry degree with supporting information on reactivity and spectroscopy. Explore the various sections to find the reaction(s) of interest to you.
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Major new section on 3D animated polymer structures added.
New facebook group started - users are encouraged to join
| Jan 2010 |
Major new section on stereochemistry including chirality, conformation, configuration, diastereoisomers, meso, Newman projections, cyclohexane and decalins |
Sep 2009 |
Organopalladium catalytic cycles for Heck reaction and Stille coupling added |
Jul 2009 |
Major new section on aromatic heterocyclic chemistry - pyridine, pyridine N-oxide, pyridone, pyrrole
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Jan 2009 |
Press release: 64,000 visitors from 158 countries in first year of operation
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Sep 2008 |
Major new sections on Rearrangements, Fragmentations, Carbenes, Baldwin's Rules, Alkene synthesis and reactions involving Silicon and Boron.
Charges and lone pairs are now included in the animated sequences. |
Jun 2008 |
Discussion forum opened and new logo designed by Lyndsey Vernon. |
May 2008 |
Lecturers/Instructor's guide added |
May 2008 |
Pericyclic reactions added based on Richard Windsor's project-1,3-dipolar cycloadditions, sigmatropic rearrangements, electrocyclic reactions |
Feb 2008 |
Stereospecific E2 eliminations in acyclic and cyclic molecules added |
Feb 2008 |
Molecular photo booth feature in resizable window view - works with IE |
Feb 2008 |
UV spectroscopy and MOs added |
| Jan 2008 |
Atomic and bonding molecular orbitals for small molecules added |
| Jan 2008 |
Dipoles and electrostatic surfaces with HOMO and LUMO added |
| Dec 2007 |
Molecular vibrations - infra-red spectroscopy added |
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