Organic Chemistry
Tutorials

Interactive

To use these tutorials you will need to install the Chemscape Chime plug-in for Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. This plug-in is necessary for viewing and manipulating the molecular models. It is recommended that you go to the excellent Cybermodels website to become familiar with the operation of Chemscape Chime before using the other tutorials.
Click here for instructions on how to operate to mouse with Chime.

Cybermodels

Alkanes
Cyclohexane & Other Cycloalkanes (cyclopropane, cyclobutane, cyclopentane)
Substituted Cyclohexanes
Cybermodel Viewer

Biomolecules
A brilliant Webstie at Carnegie Mellon University featuring all types of biomolecules

3-D Amino acid tutorial
3-D Amino acid quiz
3-D alpha helix and beta sheets
3-D DNA & RNA

Interactive Tutorials Developed by Prof. Russell

Intro to Chirality
Enantiomers

Cyclohexane conformations (Chair, Newman, 3-D, Energy)

cis-1,2-dimethylcyclohexane
trans-1,2-dimethylcyclohexane

The Burgi-Dunitz angle
Haworth Projections from Fischer Projections
Fischer Projections from eclisped confromations
Fischer Projections from staggered confromations
Butane Conformations
The Diels-Alder Reaction
Resonance in Motion -this tutorial does not require chime

Non-interacitve

Peptide secondary structure

NMR tutorials and problems

Web Spectra - UCLA
Assign and Identify spectra - CSU Dominguez Hills

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