{"id":992,"date":"2025-08-17T02:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T02:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/ethylene\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:56:58","slug":"ethylene","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/chem261\/graphics\/ethylene\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethylene"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Chem 164 &#8211; Additional Graphics<\/h1>\n<h2><b>Ethylene: <\/b>C<sub>2<\/sub>H<sub>4<\/sub><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the carbons are sp2 hybridized<\/li>\n<li>the arrangement at each C is planar<\/li>\n<li>the bond angles are 120 degrees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following images show the molecule in various renderings. Carbon is grey, the hydrogens are blue.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"0%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#E8E8E8\">\n<td width=\"200\"><strong>Ball and Stick Display <\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><strong>Wire Frame Display<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><strong>Space Filling Display <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td width=\"200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2025\/09\/ethylene_ballstck.gif\" width=\"265\" height=\"86\" align=\"BOTTOM\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2025\/09\/ethylene_wire.gif\" width=\"165\" height=\"130\" align=\"BOTTOM\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2025\/09\/ethylene_space.gif\" width=\"161\" height=\"108\" align=\"BOTTOM\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"0%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#E8E8E8\">\n<td width=\"300\"><strong>3D Ball &amp; Stick Display (view with 3D glasses) <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td width=\"300\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2025\/09\/image3.gif\" width=\"245\" height=\"166\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>Orbitals on carbon:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>two green p atomic orbitals are shown, one on each carbon ready to form a pi molecular orbital<\/li>\n<li>a red sigma molecular orbital formed by overlap of two sp2 atomic orbitals connects the black carbons<\/li>\n<li>four additional red sp2 atomic orbitals are shown ready to form sigma molecular orbitals with hydrogen s atomic orbitals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2025\/09\/ethylene_orbitals.gif\" width=\"167\" height=\"136\" align=\"BOTTOM\" hspace=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"#Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Top1\" src=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/123\/2025\/08\/top_down.jpg\" alt=\"Top\" width=\"27\" height=\"16\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"20\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chem 164 &#8211; Additional Graphics Ethylene: C2H4 the carbons are sp2 hybridized the arrangement at each C is planar the bond angles are 120 degrees The following images show the molecule in various renderings. Carbon is grey, the hydrogens are blue. Ball and Stick Display Wire Frame Display Space Filling Display 3D Ball &amp; Stick <a href=\"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/chem261\/graphics\/ethylene\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Ethylene<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"parent":793,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/chem261.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[6],"class_list":["post-992","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/992\/revisions\/1417"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaces.facsci.ualberta.ca\/vederaslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}