Molecular Structures

This page contains some simple chemical structures. Clicking on the pictures will produce three-dimensional structures which you can rotate on your computer, provided you have RasMol loaded and linked as a helper application or MDL's Chime plug-in installed.

Simple Structures

Methane
Ethane
Propane

Saturated six-membered rings

chair
boat
twist boat
methyl cyclohexane

Unsaturated rings

cyclohexene
1,3 cyclohexadiene
1,4 cyclohexadiene
benzene
trans-cyclo octene

Fused rings

trans-decalin
cis-decalin
bicyclo [2.2.2] octane
bicyclo [2.2.1] heptane (norbornane)
adamantane

Other rings

cyclo pentane
cyclo heptane
cyclo octa diene

Other molecules

biphenyl
glucose
buckminsterfullerene (C60)
C70

Four-Dimensional Molecules

DNA

Miscellaneous

Molecule of the Month

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