Molecular Architecture
Like Duolingo, but for Molecular Architecture. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 9 levels across 2 sections, about 18 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Engineering the Reaction Path and The Supramolecular Toolkit.
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Key ideas in Molecular Architecture
- The transition state has a specific geometry distinct from the ground state
- Maximized non-covalent interactions lower activation energy
- Geometric complementarity reduces entropic penalty
- Applying transition state theory to lower activation energy
- Hammond's Postulate states transition state resembles species closest in energy
- Endergonic reactions have late transition states
- Exergonic reactions have early transition states
- Predicting transition state structure using Hammond’s Postulate
- Kinetic products form faster due to lower transition state energy
- Hammond’s Postulate
- Thermodynamic products are more stable but have higher activation barriers
- Temperature and reversibility are the primary levers
- Kinetic vs Thermodynamic control
- Bulky reagents increase the energy cost of wrong transition states
- Transition state geometry
- SN1 transition states involve significant charge separation
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Molecular Architecture the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
How does an engineered active site accelerate a reaction if it specifically stabilizes the transition state geometry?
Get it right to open this lesson and 8 more in the app.
Where Molecular Architecture takes you
Move beyond basic reactions to master the art of molecular design. Learn how to manipulate orbital symmetry, transition states, and non-covalent forces to engineer complex chemical outcomes.
- 1
Engineering the Reaction Path
- Directing the Transition State
- Orbital Symmetry and Pericyclic Logic
- 2
The Supramolecular Toolkit
- Designing Non-Covalent Assemblies
2 sections · 3 units · 9 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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