Acetylene molecular model

Practice working with your Learning By Modeling software Construct molecular models of ethane ethylene and acetylene and compare them with respect to their geometry bond angles and C—H and C—C bond distances... 

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We will begin to represent molecules with models having balls for atoms and sticks for bonds, as in the ball-and-stick model of acetylene just shown. These representations are analogous to a set of molecular models. Balls are color-coded using accepted conventions carbon (black), hydrogen (white or gray), oxygen (red), and so forth. 

C) Molecular model of acetylene, C2H2,an unsaturated hydrocarbon. fDj Molecular model of benzene,C6Hg,an aromatic hydrocarbon. 

Acetylene - allene isomerization of butynols 10a, 10c and lOd must be conducted under a strict control of reaction conditions to minimize side reactions. Thus, employing 1 M instead of 0.1 M NaOH led to formation of a different set of products - oxacyclo-pentenes 16a, 16c and 16d isolated in 17 - 38% yields (Scheme 1). It is likely that allenols 11a, 11c and lid are intermediates in this transformation. Thus, in a stronger base (1 M NaOH), ionization of the primary alcohol can provide a mwe effective driving force for cyclization. The reaction is an interesting example of how an q>en-chain derivative can be transformed in a simple fashion to a nucleoside-like compound. The molecular models indicate that a direct cyclization of 11a, 11c or lid is strongly disfavored. More probably, oxiranes 17a, 17c and 17d are formed first, and the formation of an oxacyclopentene skeleton of 16a, 16c and 16d is then the result of a [1,3] sigmatropic shift.32... 

The first question to ask about the formation of interstellar molecules is where the formation occurs. There are two possibilities the molecules are formed within the clouds themselves or they are formed elsewhere. As an alternative to local formation, one possibility is that the molecules are synthesized in the expanding envelopes of old stars, previously referred to as circumstellar clouds. Both molecules and dust particles are known to form in such objects, and molecular development is especially efficient in those objects that are carbon-rich (elemental C > elemental O) such as the well-studied source IRC+10216.12 Chemical models of carbon-rich envelopes show that acetylene is produced under high-temperature thermodynamic equilibrium conditions and that as the material cools and flows out of the star, a chemistry somewhat akin to an acetylene discharge takes place, perhaps even forming molecules as complex as PAHs.13,14 As to the contribution of such chemistry to the interstellar medium, however, all but the very large species will be photodissociated rapidly by the radiation field present in interstellar space once the molecules are blown out of the protective cocoon of the stellar envelope in which they are formed. Consequently, the material flowing out into space will consist mainly of atoms, dust particles, and possibly PAHs that are relatively immune to radiation because of their size and stability. It is therefore necessary for the observed interstellar molecules to be produced locally. 

The coordination of oxygen to transition metal ions which occurs mostly in the side-on fashion on surfaces (Section III,A,2 and Appendix B) can be described following the model of acetylene-metal complexes (467). Both 7tu and 7tg orbitals of molecular oxygen have proper symmetry to interact with the bonding set of s, p, and d orbitals on the metal. The bonding orbitals are shown in Fig. 29. 

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