Useful Websites
- CHEMystery - An Interactive Guide to Chemistry
- Written by high school seniors for the ThinkQuest contest, this is a really nice review and reference site for students at all levels.
- Carbon Chemistry
- More of the basics of carbon chemistry.
- Creative Chemistry Isomers Department
- At this site you can rotate the view of isomers and watch isomer animations.
- General Chemistry Online: Isomer Construction Set
- This site allows you to construct isomers.
- Smells Database
- Click on a compound for a description of its smell (and other characteristics) and 3-D images of its structure.
- Library of 3-D Molecular Structures
- You can view 3-D molecular structures of water and ice, carbon, hydrocarbons, amino acids, nucleotides, lipids, sugars, photosynthesis molecules, and various drugs. Manipulation of the molecules will help you extend your understanding about molecular structure, and help you understand the textbook diagrams.
- RasMol
- RasMol's molecular visualization software allows users to interact with molecules in a variety of representations (ball and stick, space-filling, ribbons, etc.) as well as coloring schemes. 3-D stereograms can also be created. Images can be rotated, expanded, or shrunk, and explored interactively.
