Our mission is to create innovative, digital learning technology for students.

We aim to make intuitive learning both accessible and affordable for students everywhere. The initial concepts derive from the founder's decades of teaching college-level chemistry in the small classes of an independent high school. We have taken this unique perspective of pedagogy and transformed it into game-based learning modules.

Interact. Explore. Learn.

Enhance your learning platform with dynamic experiences of STEM content. Guided instruction and embedded assessment through game-inspired interactives.

This Web header is an animated illustration rendered with clean charcoal-colored lines, grey shading, and light green accent colors. It features a large book opened with two students exploring the pages inside it. The right page has a chemical structure made of 8 carbons coming out of the page, turning from a 2D structure to a 3D one, and one of the students observeing the closest carbon. The left page shows a mechanism, and the 2nd student is placing an arrow to complete it. It features a chat bubble to the left of the 2nd student animated in a choppy style, showing how the text is read to the student. The pencil line extends to the left with a squiggly trail that continues into a swooping motion. The line has come alive with illustrations of a flask, magnify glass, DNA, and atom structures all connected by the pencil's trail illustrating how a 2D concept can come alive.

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Our web-based tools deliver immediate feedback to students as they explore content, gaining the deeper connections needed for long-lasting learning.

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Explore the tabs to the right to view or listen to alt text about 3 of our interactive learning tools: Hybridization, Lewis Structures, and 3D Mechanisms.

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Our web-based tools deliver immediate feedback to students as they explore content, gaining deeper connections needed for long-lasting learning.

Alchemie’s Hybridization Explorer is shown with two dots along an axis in the middle of the screen representing two nuclei of atoms, and a menu bar on the side that includes s, p, and d orbitals. One s and two p orbitals are dragged to each dot and the hybridize button is clicked. Four sp3 orbitals are formed on each atom with one from each overlapping with an orbital from the adjacent atom to form a sigma bond. A p orbital is added to each atom and a pi bond forms.

Build models of hybrid and atomic orbitals of a singular atom or between two atoms within a molecule. Simply drag the orbitals you want to combine onto the black dot, click HYBRIDIZE to form hybrid orbitals, and add in any remaining atomic orbitals. Rotating the entire molecule or a single atom aids in visualization of geometries and rotation of bonds.

For the best experience, use the Hybridization explorer on a computer. Mobile compatibility and accessibility features are coming soon.

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Alchemie’s Lewis Structure Explorer is shown with a menu bar on the side that includes a selection of atoms represented by circles. A carbon, oxygen, and two hydrogen atoms are dragged to the center of the screen. As each atom is placed, the electron counter in the top right corner increases by the valence number of the atom. Single bonds are then formed between carbon and the other atoms by clicking on carbon and dragging to each atom. A double bond is formed between carbon and oxygen by clicking on carbon and dragging to oxygen again. Lone pairs of electrons are added to oxygen by dragging from oxygen and releasing in empty space. As each bond and lone pair of electrons are formed, the electron count goes down by two.

An addition mechanism is shown in Alchemie’s 3D Mechanism Explorer. Propene, hydronium, and a water molecule are shown. A red arrow is drawn from the double bond of propene to a hydrogen atom of hydronium, and another arrow is drawn from the hydrogen-oxygen bond of hydronium to the oxygen of hydronium. The button in the top right corner that says push, is pressed and and animations shows a bond forming between carbon 1 of propene and a hydrogen from hydronium and the hydrogen-oxygen bond on hydronium breaking. A new arrow is drawn from the oxygen of water to the carbocation on propane, the push button is clicked, and a bond forms between the oxygen and carbon. A new arrow is then drawn from a water molecule to a hydrogen on the oxygen attached to the carbon, and a second arrow is drawn from the hydrogen-oxygen bond to the oxygen. The push button is clicked and an animation shows a bond forming between oxygen and hydrogen to make hydronium, and the hydrogen-oxygen bond breaking to form a lone pair on the oxygen that is bonded to carbon, resulting in the products of 2-propanol and hydronium.

VSEPR & Hybridization Now available!

Observe electron and molecular geometries in 3D as you add lone pairs of electrons and bonding groups to a generic central atom. Instantly receive additional information about geometries and bond angles through the Model Data box as you build.

Screen reader compatible and accessible with the ability to build using keyboard controls and receive audio descriptions of the model in real time.

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Accessibility by Design

Our patent-pending, research-backed technology delivers accessibility as a key feature of the learning experience.

Providing independent learning for students with blindness or low vision using multi-sensory augmented reality.

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Funding From:

Institute of Education Sciences

NIDILRR

Michigan Economic Development Corporation

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Mechanisms

Bring arrow pushing to life with the app that allows users to move electrons to complete reaction mechanisms.

Covering both semesters of Organic Chemistry, the Mechanisms app offers more than 260 puzzles to challenge students as they improve their mechanistic reasoning skills.

Engage students with the Mechanisms app by creating assignments and monitoring student progress in the Epiphany Dashboard for instructors

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Mechanisms Icon, A blue rounded square with the round shapes of a Carbon in the top left corner, and a Oxygen in the bottom right. A Electron is moving between them. — Mechanisms Icon

Download Mechanisms available on the web, in Itunes, and Google Play Store

Epiphany Dashboard Available for Instructors
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Gif showing Various features of the Mechanisms app are shown including the task card which shows the title of the puzzle and a step of the mechanism with arrows; how a lone pair of electrons can be dragged to an atom to form a bond; forming and breaking bonds in a resonance structure; and how a bond snaps back when an incorrect bond is formed.

ModelAR

Break up with your model set!

ModelAR is a great way to supplement your Organic Chemistry learning materials. No other study tool or app provides a truly immersive, 3D method to build and manipulate molecules & chemical structures.

Bring the molecules to life with the Augmented Reality feature!

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