Preface

Preface
 

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Preface

To many students isomerism and in particular stereoisomerism appear as an undigestible pile of technical terms. UNIMOLIS is meant to help here.

We outlined the field using as few technical terms as possible and in an illustrative and interactive manner.

It is worthwile to study molecular structure in detail. The closer you look, the more and the finer differences you will detect. The gain is a deeper understanding of the compounds' properties.

It is a pleasure to acknowledge steady support provided by Professor A. Kerber during the production of this course.

Kai Hager (unit of chemical education, Mr. W. Wagner) programmed the twistable illustrations of simple hydrocarbons and other VRML objects. Katja Dockendorff and Daniela Grote (Prof. K. Seifert) provided NMR spectra. Many thanks to all of them.

We are happy to receive hints to errors, comments or any feedback from you, our readers and users of UNIMOLIS. For that purpose here is our email address

unimolis@uni-bayreuth.de

Bayreuth, in November 2002

Christoph Rücker
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