Visualizing Organic Chemistry for iOS

Visualizing Organic Chemistry is a collection of tools that make learning organic chemistry easier. Its an excellent resource for instructors and students alike! The app contains 60 visuals, many of which incorporate 3D interactive models and animations that help students envision key concepts in organic chemistry.

Visualizing Organic Chemistry includes:

-Orbitals and Bonding-

Interactive 3D models of basic and hybrid atomic orbitals

Molecular orbital diagrams with 3D models showing orbital shape and symmetry

How bond dissociation energy changes with internuclear distance

-Physical Properties-

Define the most important functional groups with structural drawings and 3D models

Electronegativity trends and Pauling electronegativities of the elements

3D electrostatic potential maps demonstrating charge distribution in molecules

3D molecular models demonstrating how molecular size and shape affect surface area and boiling point

-Free Rotation and Conformations-

Interactive Newman projections demonstrating free rotation with conformational changes reflected in 3D models

Interactive Newman projections demonstrating torsional and steric strain energies

3D models of smaller cycloalkanes with animated changes between important conformations

3D models of cyclopropane, cyclobutane, and cyclopentane illustrating several important conformations

Animated 3D models of cyclohexanes demonstrating conformational inversions (chair flips) and 1,3-diaxial strain

3D models illustrating spirocyclic, fused, and bridged bicyclic compounds

-Stereochemistry-

3D models illustrating cis/trans isomers of disubstituted rings and alkenes

3D models demonstrating chirality and its relation to symmetry

3D models depicting the spatial relationships of substituents in both dash-wedge and Fischer projections

Interactive dash-wedge and Fischer projections demonstrating 3D rotation of substituents in 2D space

3D model of a basic polarimeter illustrating the measurement of optical rotation of chiral compounds

3D models that demonstrate enantiomeric and diastereomeric relationships in compounds with more than one chiral center

-Spectroscopy-

Animated, interactive 3D models depicting CH2X2 IR stretching and bending vibrational modes

IR spectra for several compounds depicting the most important functional group absorptions

NMR spectra with accompanying 3D models illustrating chemical equivalency and its relationship to symmetry

Proton and carbon-13 NMR spectra for several compounds depicting several important chemical shift ranges

-Reactions-

Interactive 3D animation of HX addition showing free energy changes during the reaction

Interactive 3D animations demonstrating syn/anti stereoselectivity in various electrophilic additions

Interactive 3D animation of nucleophilic substitutions showing free energy changes during the reaction

Interactive 3D animations demonstrating inversion and retention of stereochemistry in nucleophilic substitutions