C6H6 ring (1)

Sixfold Rotation Axis in C6H6

Point to the benzene ring using your mouse and click on it. Each time that you do so the operation of sixfold symmetry will be applied to the molecule and you will see that the hydrogen atom coloured in blue rotates anticlockwise by 60°.

(This demo works best when all of the images are cached in memory.)


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