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Dr. Glaser's Visualization Center
To accompany Bruice, Organic Chemistry, 3/e, Chapter 28

Theme Molecule Name Chemical Formula
Cycloaddition cyclohexene (S) C6H10
Cycloaddition trans-butadiene (S) C4H6
Cycloaddition gauche-butadiene (S) C4H6
Electrocyclic Reaction 1,3-cyclohexadiene (S) C6H8
Electrocyclic Reaction all-trans hexatriene (S) C6H8
Electrocyclic Reaction all-gauche hexatriene (S) C6H8
Sigmatropic Rearrangement 3-methyl-1,5-hexadiene (S) C7H12
Sigmatropic Rearrangement 1-methyl-1,5-hexadiene (S) C7H12
Nucleic Acid Bases thymine (S) C5H6N2O2
Nucleic Acid Bases thymine dimer (S) [C5H6N2O2]2
Nucleic Acid Bases uracil (S) C4H4N2O2
Nucleic Acid Bases uracil dimer (S) [C4H4N2O2]2
Photolyases from the Protein Data Bank deoxyribodipyrimidine photolyase (S) pdb enzyme
Photolyases from the Protein Data Bank photolyase (S) pdb enzyme

[a] Unless otherwise noted, structures were optimized at the ab initio level RHF/6-31G*.
[b] Structures marked pdb were obtained from the protein data bank.