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Dr. Glaser's Visualization Center
To accompany Bruice, Organic Chemistry, 3/e, Chapter 1

Theme Molecule Name Chemical Formula
Prototypical Molecules with sp3 Hybridization methane (S) CH4
Prototypical Molecules with sp3 Hybridization ammonia (S) NH3
Prototypical Molecules with sp3 Hybridization
water (S) OH2
Prototypical Molecules with sp3 Hybridization
ethane (S) H3C-CH3
Prototypical Molecules with sp2 Hybridization ethene (S) H2C=CH2
Prototypical Molecules with sp Hybridization
ethyne (S) HCCH
Homologs of Ammonia and Water hydrazine (S) H2N-NH2
Homologs of Ammonia and Water hydrogen peroxide (S) HO-OH
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases ammonia (S) NH3
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases trifluoroborane (S) BF3
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases ammonia-trifluoroborane complex (S) H3NBF3
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases acetaldehyde (S) H3C-CHO
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases protonated acetaldehyde (S) H3C-C(+)H-OH
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases acetaldehyde trifluoroborane complex (S) H3C-CHO... BF3
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases methanol (S) H3COH
Lewis Acids & Lewis Bases protonated methanol (S) H3C-(+)OH2

[a] All structures were optimized at correlated level MP2(full)/6-31G*.