THE BEADED MOLECULES
串珠分子模型的美妙世界

Three students in my class, Molecular Aesthetics, constructed a bead model of Klein bottle. My contribution to their work is to te...

Valence sphere models, a qualitative chemical bond model that includes the influence of the electron pair repulsion among valence electron p...

I just learned a kind of molecule called twistane the other day. It looks so interesting and I decided to make a bead model for it.

Prismane with 3-, 4-, and 5-fold rotational symmetry:

The structure of a penta-prismane is similar to that of a cubane. Instead of 4-fold rotational symmetry, one has a five-fold rotational symm...

The tetrahedrane derivative with four tert-butyl substituents, tetra-t-butyl tetrahedrane, was synthesized by the Austrian chemist,Günther M...

According to the wiki: A pagoda （塔） is the general term in the English language for a tiered tower with multiple eaves common in Nepal, I...

I made a bead valence sphere model of adamantane (chemical formula C 10 H 16 ), which is a cycloalkane and also the simplest diamondoid.

I made a bead valence sphere model of cyclohexane, C 6 H 12 , which seems to reproduce all important structural features of this molecule. ...

Fullerane is any hydrogenated fullerene or fully saturated fullerene. For instance, the fully saturated C 60 is C 60 H 60 . One can make a ...

I should forget another platonic alkane, the tetrahedrane. The shape of this molecule based on the valence sphere model is just like 10 sph...

In principle, we can make the valence sphere model for any molecule with beads. But in practice, it is a little bit hard to thread the Nylo...

I just made a bead VSM (valence sphere model) of cubane (C 8 H 8 ) by myself. The structure looks neat to me. Every valence electron pair ...

There is no doubt that tetravalent molecules such as methane occupy an important place in the chemical bond theory. In 1865, German chemist...

Using beads, one can make a faithful representation of the so-called valence sphere model (VSM) or tangent sphere model for a molecule propo...

E. A. Lord, A. Mackay, and S. Ranganathan described in their book, "New geometries for new materials", a simple cluster consisting...

I bought some more green rice-shape beads last week and managed to finish this interesting clathrate cluster of 60 dodecahedra in the last w...

I made this structure with beads last weekend. Still unfinished. The finished structure should have 60 dodecahedra arranged like a buckball....

Qian-Rui and I discussed the possibility of using beads to build molecular models for compounds that contain hybridizations other than sp 2 ...

I made this structure during the spring break. Chuang has made a similar structure with several truncated octahedron before. But his structu...