# Common Organic Reaction Animations

**URL:** <https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235>\
**Category:** Teaching\
**Created:** [November 21, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235 "2025-11-21T20:44:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/1 "2025-11-21T20:44:56Z")

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I was working through an example SN2 pathway with ORCA:

 ![SN2](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/uploads/default/original/2X/6/6e5923a069a5e53b851617d1014a2bb0b0cceb50.png)

Would it be useful to have an Open Chemistry resource with a variety of common reaction mechanisms as trajectories?

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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/2 "2025-11-21T20:51:50Z")

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I’m thinking of something like [ChemTube 3D](https://www.chemtube3d.com/) but you can load them up into Avogadro, tweak the renderings, etc.

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**Author:** ![Miroslav\_Ilias](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/miroslav_ilias/32/511_2.png) [@Miroslav\_Ilias](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/Miroslav_Ilias)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 9:52pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/3 "2025-11-21T21:52:00Z")

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> [@ghutchis](#):
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> ould it be useful to have an

Yes, for teaching purposes.

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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/4 "2025-11-21T21:58:18Z")

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Any particular suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Miroslav\_Ilias](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/miroslav_ilias/32/511_2.png) [@Miroslav\_Ilias](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/Miroslav_Ilias)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/5 "2025-11-21T22:01:06Z")

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SN2 is a must 🙂 But also Diels-Alder reaction.

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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/6 "2025-11-22T02:22:17Z")

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A colleague told me about

“Not That DDT: A Databank of Dynamics Trajectories for Organic Reactions”  
_J. Chem. Educ._ **2022** , 99, 7, 2721–2725  
doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00443

It seems like the website is down, but I’ll talk with Prof. Tantillo about posting the trajectories somewhere more permanent (e.g. GitHub, FigShare, etc.). Seems like it incudes both IRC and AIMD trajectories including vibrations, which would be great.

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**Author:** ![ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/user_avatar/discuss.avogadro.cc/ghutchis/32/456_2.png) [@ghutchis](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/u/ghutchis)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2025, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/common-organic-reaction-animations/7235/7 "2025-11-22T16:02:26Z")

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And there’s now also WebORA:  
[https://webora.chem.byu.edu/](https://webora.chem.byu.edu/)