Flashy animation, superb narrative, and a touch of bad-hair-day humor explain the nature of chiral molecules in this five-minute feature. Viewers find out how chemist Jacobus Van't Hoff proposed that some saturated carbon molecules are tetrahedrons and they are nonsuperimposable mirror images. This is an informative resource to use during a stereochemistry unit.

Concepts

molecular structure, molecules, organic chemistry, stereochemistry

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Additional Tags

chiral molecules, spatial property, molecular shape, organic chemistry, stereochemistry, science

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Pros

• Five multiple choice and three open-ended questions provided for assessment
• Additional information and links to other related resources can be found in Dig Deeper
• Neatly animated and contains complete, easy-to-follow explanations

Cons

• None