Visualizing Organic Mechanisms: Wittig reaction 1

Wittig reaction between acetylbenzene and an ethyl ylide. The molecules appear jittery because the simulation was done relatively lazily and using a low-level method. The size of the molecule prevented more complex methods.

Visualized using VMD:
Humphrey, W., Dalke, A. and Schulten, K., "VMD - Visual Molecular Dynamics", J. Molec. Graphics, 1996, vol. 14, pp. 33-38.