return to contents page      full-monte version of this page

http://www.chem.arizona.edu/~salzmanr/orbitals.html

neat Chime-viewable and manipulable orbitals 

Atomic and Molecular  Orbitals by Craig Counterman at MIT

http://web.mit.edu/3.091/www/orbs/

formerly at: http://wulff.mit.edu/orbs/

really beautiful interactive pix of classic, hybridized, and molecular orbitals!! 

access is quirky at times. New URL found by MIT site search 2/11/02

"Orbital Central"   http://www.orbitals.com/orb/index.html

Grand Orbital Table   http://www.orbitals.com/orb/orbtable.htm

"Orbital Central"   site map   http://www.orbitals.com/map.htm

or at   http://www.albany.net/~cprimus/orb/index.html  [will redirect you to URL above]

Neat pictures of orbitals -- and orbital-drawing software you can download from "Orbital Central"  Claims to be the most extensive set of orbital pix on the web -- even has g and h orbitals!

http://mol.chem.dal.ca/horbital/orbital.html

only goes up through the 3d orbitals, but nice nonetheless

http://www.uky.edu/~holler/html/orbitals_2.html

spinning their way into your heart!

http://www.shef.ac.uk/chemistry/orbitron/

the latest entry, from the creator of WebElements™ and the force behind U Shef's Chemdex, contains static pictures of orbital sets from 1s to 7p and hybrid orbitals from sp to d²sp³ along with the following for each orbital selected: animated plots of wave functions, animated plots of electron density, "dot-density" plots of electron density (Chime required for this feature) and  plots of radial distribution functions along with the wave function equations.

http://www.colby.edu/chemistry/OChem/DEMOS/Orbitals.html

really neat !   You need Macromedia's Shockwave to view this. Now works in both Netscape and IE.

http://www.mpcfaculty.net/mark_bishop/Hybrid_frame.htm

Chime-viewable hybrid orbitals, presented either individually or all at once

http://www.mhhe.com/physsci/chemistry/essentialchemistry/flash/hybrv18.swf

they get mixed right before your eyes . Select from sp, sp2, sp3, sp3d, sp3d2, or display all at once. Have your sound turned on for the accompanying narration.

http://itl.chem.ufl.edu/ao_pict/ao_pict.html

from 1s to the 4f group

http://dauger.com/orbitals/

the full site requires a Mac and some downloads to view, but there are a few animated pictures  for us PC users

http://mc2.cchem.berkeley.edu/VSEPR/

Chime-viewable structures illustrating molecular geometry for each possible  situation where from two to six electron pair groups surround a central atom [default display is wireframe; I chose ball-and-stick for the picture of BrF5 at left]

http://www2.gasou.edu/chemdept/general/molecule/tutorial/

they seem to prefer that you use Netscape 4.5 with Chime plugin to view this, but I had no trouble using MS IE 5.5 with Chime. Detailed text accompanies manipulable images -- and it's very colorful!

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~chem/vsepr/

extensive text background with step-by-step instructions and colorful static and Chime-based pictures of the results for the examples used

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/vsepr/structur2.html

a useful Chime-based tutorial

Chime version:  http://www.molecules.org/VSEPR_table_c.html

Non-Chime version:  http://www.molecules.org/VSEPR_table.html

The non-Chime images are linked to enlarged animated rotating versions

http://people.ouc.bc.ca/woodcock/molecule/molfrag/mf004.htm

Dave shows Chime structures of a number of species, both with lone pairs [like the ICl2- ion at left, where they appear in pink] and without them, enabling you to see very clearly how electron-group geometry and overall molecular shape are related.

http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr/mo/shawn/shawn.htm

Chime images and brief text for the common molecular shapes. The pictures are beautiful, but the text commentary is substantially weaker in explanation when compared to the sites listed above. 

http://www.umr.edu/~gbert/VSEPR/Avse.HTML

a presentation with text, frames, and noninteractive small animations

http://chemlabs.uoregon.edu/GeneralResources/models/vsepr.html

a nicely-done intro with interactive Chime displays