Best models for lecture demonstration of inorganic isomers?

Submitted by Anne Bentley / Lewis & Clark College on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 18:56

I need to order a new model kit for general chem and my (much smaller) inorganic chemistry course.  Every spring when both courses roll around to optical and geometric isomers of inorganic coordination compounds, I am frustrated and flummoxed about how to best demonstrate them.  Particularly difficult are the chelating ligands.

 

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