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Nucleophilic substitution (.swf) (hydroxide ion and chloromethane) (CPJE - 7.7.05)

Electrophilic addition (.swf)  (ethene and hydrogen bromide) (CPJE - 26.10.05)

Electrophilic substitution(.swf)  (benzene and nitronium ion - nitryl cation) (CPJE - 5.11.05)

Electrolysis (.swf)  (molten lead(II) bromide) (CPJE - 27.11.05)

Primary alcohol(.gif) (MT - 6.2.06)

"Video" of alkane bromination using ?UV light (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Chlorination of methane mechanism (curly arrows) (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Addition of bromine to ethene mechanism (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Addition of HCN to a carbonyl mechanism (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Nitration of benzene mechanism (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Formation of a pi bond (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Friedel-Crafts mechanism (Chlorination of benzene using FeCl₃) (.gif) (MT - 27.2.06)

Nucleophilic attack of cyanide ion on ethanal, showing the formation of the two optical isomers of the alkoxide ion (.swf) (CPJE - 11.8.06)

Collision of a hydrogen molecule and iodine molecule (not to scale!), showing formation of the transition state (.gif) (CPJE - 15.8.06)

Addition of hydrogen bromide to an asymmetric alkene (propene) (.gif) (CPJE - 24.8.06)

Adding electrons in shells (H to Ca) (.gif) (MT - 4.11.06)

Adding electrons showing the aufbau principle (.gif) (MT - 4.11.06)

Animation of "flight-time" mass spectroscopy. (.swf) (CPJE/MT - 21.11.07)

Animation of formation of beryllium chloride, illustrating Fajan's Rules . (.swf) (CPJE - 27.12.07)

NEW Animation of origin of Lyman and Balmer series in the hydrogen spectrum (.swf) (CPJE, with suggestions from MT - 24.3.08)

NEW Four gif animations from MT (2.4.08): distillation, reflux, visible light, chlorine molecule