{"term":{"id":"06667","title":"wedge projection","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - wedge projection","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.W06667","code":"W06667","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"A stereochemical projection, roughly in the mean plane of the molecule, in which bonds are represented by open wedges, tapering off from the nearer atom to the farther atom. It is mainly used to illustrate the conformation of larger cycloalkanes e.g. cyclotetradecane:   equivalent to ","links":[{"term":"conformation","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01258"},{"term":"cycloalkanes","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/C01497"}],"sources":["PAC, 1996, 68, 2193. 'Basic terminology of stereochemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 1996)' on page 2222 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac199668122193)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/W06667\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/W06667\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/W06667\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'wedge projection' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.W06667","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-01T07:37:50+00:00"}}