Terpene Cyclization Cascade (2D)

This 2D companion drives the same carbocation cascade as the 3D version through a plain schematic view built for reading the chemistry rather than orbiting a scene: geranyl pyrophosphate ionizes as its leaving group departs, the chain folds into a six-membered ring, and the resulting α-terpinyl cation branches into limonene, α-terpineol, or α-pinene depending on which pathway button you pick — with a live energy diagram and an Arrhenius-equation rate constant that responds to the temperature slider in real time.