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What is Chirality and How Did it Get in My Molecules?

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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.

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Pros
  • Five multiple choice and three open-ended questions provided for assessment
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  • Neatly animated and contains complete, easy-to-follow explanations
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