Below are a variety of interesting structures that can be viewed if you have installed either RasMol or Chemscape Chime as a plug-in viewer in your web browser. These molecules can be Interactively sized and rotated.

Strained Organic Molecules and Reactions

 1,2,3-cyclooctatriene Tetrahedron Letters 37, 4907 (1996)

Mobius Benzene J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 7381

 trans-cyclohexene J. Org. Chem., 60, 1074 - 1076 (1995)

 trans-Dewar Benzene J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 1996, 118, 7381

cyclobutyne rearrangement MCSCF IRC J. Am. Chem. Soc 117, 362-367 (1995)

E2 reaction animation

Diels-Alder reaction animation

 "Ene" reaction animation

[1,5] sigmatropic hydrogen shift animation

More Interesting Molecules
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