Model Kit Recommendation?

[byeh2004]

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My crap model kit i bought for ochem from my school broke on me. Does anyone have a recommendation on which model kit I could get? Thanks!

 

[byeh2004]

😕 anyone?

 

[velo]

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[ahumdinger]

My crap model kit i bought for ochem from my school broke on me. Does anyone have a recommendation on which model kit I could get? Thanks!

Were you trying to make cyclopropane? They should have a disclaimer: this model set may succumb to angle strain.

 

[SpeedRacer]

believe me, i'm not bragging because i had to work my freakin ass off in organic to do well, but do you really need a model kit? i mean i understand for stereochem etc. but once that's over it's like seriously useless. so considering you have to pay a ton for those things, you might just be done with stereochem by the time you get it.

then again, i guess everyone's syllabus is different, so that makes my post stupid.

 

[C.P. Jones]

yea, i agree....i would have found it useless...and would have ended up just making animals and the kind out of it; therefore, i never bought it

 

[Nikki2002]

yea, i agree....i would have found it useless...and would have ended up just making animals and the kind out of it; therefore, i never bought it

i know--i remember around christmas i made a festive reindeer. My little 3 yr. old sister plays with them now--yeah, she's gonna be a chemistry genius.

 

[75969]

i know--i remember around christmas i made a festive reindeer. My little 3 yr. old sister plays with them now--yeah, she's gonna be a chemistry genius.

Seriously......

1cup flour
1 cup water
1/4 cup salt
mix together wile heating on stove....voila! Playdough!!!

I used playdough for models in inorganic 2 nights ago....not as pretty as model kits, but gets the job done! LOL 😀

 

[75969]

Seriously......

1cup flour
1 cup water
1/4 cup salt
mix together wile heating on stove....voila! Playdough!!!

I used playdough for models in inorganic 2 nights ago....not as pretty as model kits, but gets the job done! LOL 😀

I forgot to add....3 tsp cream of tartar and a 'gulg' of vege. oil......

 

[DrBowtie]

I used "Darling Models"

Creator is Darling and I am sure you can look them up...They have a green case.

No complaints yet. I wish they had more of the end balls though.

 

[heatherkmd]

I agree, I bought mine and then ended up selling it halfway thru the semester on E-Bay! I bought the one that my professor recommended on the syallbus that was at oour Univ bookstore. GOod luck with Orgo

 

[Hurricane95]

I bought the molymod kit (british company) in orgo I, and I regret it...the thing is beautiful and super high quality, but also expensive (like $40) and I never used it after the stereochem section of test1....sigh. I don't recommend you buy it. If you have a friend who has a kit all you need for stereochem is one sp3 carbon with 4 different colored balls for the substituents. This should suffice for visualizing R and S and all the other stuff you may need. You and a few friends can split the cost and all share one kit.

 

[byeh2004]

yea i made cyclobutane and cyclopropane a few times... my sp3's are all bent out of shape! i couldnt even tell if my cyclohexane substituents were in equatorial or axial positions... 👎 👎 👎

 

[C.P. Jones]

so instead of buying some kit to visualize them, i used this strange object called a "brain". It's actually amazing. It allows you to see whatever it is you wanted to build w/ the kit, rotate, zoom in and out, change orientations...

i picked mine up at the local graveyard

 

[RayhanS1282]

so instead of buying some kit to visualize them, i used this strange object called a "brain". It's actually amazing. It allows you to see whatever it is you wanted to build w/ the kit, rotate, zoom in and out, change orientations...

i picked mine up at the local graveyard

I actually thought you were being serious 'till I read the last sentence. I was about to google "Brain Oragnic Kit".