The Department of Chemistry at the University of Illinois
The Chemistry learning center
Low Molecular Weight Molecules
To view the molecules from the links below you will need to have installed on your computer the chemscape Chime Plug-In for the Netscape or Internet Explorer browser. The Chemscape Chime Plug-In can be downloaded from MDL Information Systems Chemscape Chime
The computers in the Chemistry Learning Center already have Chime installed.
To display and rotate the molecules, right click, and select either Display or Rotation.
ALKANES
- Methane
- Ethane, staggered
- Ethane, eclipsed
- Butane, gauche, 60, 30
- Butane, anti, 180
- Butane, eclipsed, 0
- Butane, eclipsed, 120, 240
- Hexane, anti
- Decane, anti
BRANCHED ALKANES
CHLORINATED ALKANES
CYCLOALKANES
- cyclopropane
- cyclobutane, folded
- cyclobutane, planar
- cyclopentane, envelope
- cyclopentane,half chair
- cyclohexane, chair
CRYSTALs
(The screen will appear blank - right click, select Ball and Sticks from Display menu)
- NaCl, cubic - 8 atoms per unit cell
- CaF2, cubic - 12 atoms per unit cell
- PbS, cubic - 8 atoms per unit cell
- Ar, face centered cubic - 4 atoms per unit cell
- TiO2 (rutile), tetragonal - 6 atoms per unit cell
- CaTiO3 (perovskite), tetragonal - 5 atoms per unit cell
- diamond, cubic - 8 atoms per unit cell
- ZnS (wurzite), hexagonal closest packing - 8 atoms per unit cell
- Na, body centered cubic - 2 atoms per unit cell
- Cu, face centered cubic - 4 atoms per unit cell
- MgAl2O4 (spinel), cubic - 56 atoms per unit cell
- PtS, tetragonal - 8 atoms per unit cell
