Drawing Three Dimensional (3-D) Structures on Paper | |
A Brief Review of Line Structures |
Line structures are the organic chemists shorthand for drawing chemical structures on paper. | |
Consider propane, a simple alkane with the molecular formula C3H8. | |
A beginner might draw an extended structure, showing all of the bonds an atoms in propane: | |
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Thus, chemists have taken to using line structures for most drawing of structures. | |
The line structure for propane looks like this:. | |
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Rules for drawing line structures: | |
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Look at a few more examples, in order to become familiar with line structures: | |
What about stereochemical information or three dimensional information? Please go to the next page for this topic. | |
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