Chem207 Workshop 4: Symmetry
for the workshop
(updated for 2024)
Bring to the workshop:
- notes for the start of the workshop pdf
- character tables pdf
- flow chart pdf
- workshop assignment sheet pdf
Additional materials:
- slides from the start of the workshop: pdf
- workshop activity answers pdf
- a good textbook: Group Theory for Chemists, Kieran C. Molloy, Harwood Publishing, Chichester, 2004
- another textbook: Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory, Alan Vincent, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2001
- Chemtube3d is a good website for viewing symmetry elements on 3d rotateable molecules
- Otterbein Gallery has some good examples, and the molecules can be rotated/moved:
- wiki on symmetry in general
