Molecules
- Gas Molecules
- What molecule is C5H12? How many isomers can you draw?
- What molecule is C5H12O? How many isomers can you draw?
- What molecule is C5H10O? How many isomers can you draw?
- Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion (VSEPR)
- Fuel Molecules
- Enantiomers
- Fatty Acids, Esters, Phospholipids
- Fatty Acid Triglyceride Packing
- Carbohydrates, Polysaccharides and Energy
- Amino Acids and Proteins
- Pharmaceuticals from Nature
- Nucleic Acids, DNA, RNA
- Steroids
Solid State
- Interactive Unit Cells (cubic)
- Stoichiometry Problems (cubic)
- Hexagonal Close Packing
- Cubic Close Packing
- Ionic Radius Ratio
- NaCl
- Interactive Unit Cells (centering)
- Interactive Unit Cells (Miller indices)
- Solid State Structures (Polyhedral Model Kit)
- Forms of Carbon
- Gold Nanoparticles
- Artists Pigments
Orbitals
- Atomic Orbitals (probability density)
- Atomic Orbitals (surfaces, contours, and probability density)
- d-orbitals and ligand geometries
Organometallic Electron Counting (See VIPEr)
(A thousand electron counting problems from crystal structures.
Later pages use ligands from earlier pages.)
- Metal Carbonyl Complexes
- Metal Nitrogen Complexes
- Metal Nitrosyl Complexes
- Metal Carbon Complexes
- Metal Alkene Complexes
- Metal Sandwich Complexes
- Metal Sandwich Complexes (part 2)
- Metal-Metal Bonds
- Metal-Metal Bonds (part 2)
- Z Ligands
- Vaska's Complex
Coordination Chemistry
- Polydentate Ligands
- Metalloproteins
MOFs (See J. Chem. Educ., 99, 1998-2004 (2022) DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00120)
- MOF, COF, and ZIF Framework Pores and Components
- Pore Packing and Topology
- Identify Packing in Frameworks
Many thanks to Bob Hanson at St. Olaf for the development of
JSmol as an open source project.
These pages created by George Lisensky. Last modified January 23, 2026.