Chlorophacinone 3D Model — CAS 3691-35-8

Chlorophacinone (C23H15ClO3, CAS 3691-35-8) — a free educational 3D molecular model for teachers and students, by MolGod.org. No legend required: the element symbol is engraved on each atom.

Start with the ring system: Chlorophacinone has four rings (one 5-membered and three 6-membered), with one pair of rings fused along a shared edge, three of them aromatic; in total the model carries 45 bonds (24 single, 3 double and 18 aromatic). A five-minute warm-up: read the symbol on every sphere and write down the totals (23 C + 15 H + 1 Cl + 3 O = 42 atoms). Where on the model can students see the three ketone groups (C=O) and the C-Cl bond? Let them search before you reveal the answer. No R/S label is assigned here, although Chlorophacinone contains one stereocentre: ask the class which arrangements are possible. Worth bringing out when the syllabus reaches aromaticity and delocalised electrons, chirality, enantiomers and CIP (R/S) rules, fused ring systems, the carbonyl group (C=O), as well as organohalogen compounds and carbon-halogen bonds.

Free for education: MolGod.org publishes engraved molecular models for teachers, students and schools. Teachers: let students set the model beside a skeletal formula and list what the drawing omits.

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A ball-and-stick model of Chlorophacinone with each element symbol recessed into its atom sphere, generated by MolGod.org from a PubChem-computed 3D conformer (not an experimental crystal structure); atomic coordinates and connectivity are unchanged. STL mesh: 594,382 triangles, closed (watertight) single solid. Coordinates in ångström (STL stores no unit) — scale the model deliberately in your slicer.

Names in other languages: Chlorphacinon (de); Chloorfacinon (nl); 氯鼠酮 (zh).

Chemical identity - CAS Registry Number: 3691-35-8 - Molecular formula: C23H15ClO3 - Molar mass: 374.8 g/mol (exact mass 374.0709720) - IUPAC name: 2-[2-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-phenylacetyl]indene-1,3-dione - MolGod ID: MG_940-128-408-66 (https://molgod.org/id/MG_940-128-408-66) - PubChem CID: 19402 (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/19402) - Wikidata: Q413488 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q413488) - EC number: 223-003-0 - ChemSpider ID: 18286 - InChIKey: UDHXJZHVNHGCEC-UHFFFAOYSA-N - SMILES: C1=CC=C(C=C1)C(C2=CC=C(C=C2)Cl)C(=O)C3C(=O)C4=CC=CC=C4C3=O

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