chirality

Using LEGO bricks and paper springs to illustrate helical chemical structures

Dean Campbell | Sat, 06/29/2024 - 13:56

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Helical structures can be built from media such as LEGO bricks and paper. These structures can be used to model helical structures in chemistry. These include circularly polarized light and various helical biomolecules.

ChemTube3D iPad App for organic mechanisms (and so much more!)

Lowell Thomson | Fri, 10/20/2017 - 21:17

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The recently published iPad app ChemTube3D (and related website for classrooms without iPads) will be discussed. It has a great deal of functionality - including a large selection of organic mechanism animations and models of structure and bonding.