4. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
Calculating Energy Difference Between Chair Conformations
Problem 90
Textbook Question
Textbook QuestionDraw the conformers for the following trisubstituted cyclohexane. Calculate the strain energy of each conformer. (The gauche interaction between a methyl and an ethyl group is 0.96 kcal/mol; the 1,3-diaxial interaction between a methyl and an H is 0.87 kcal/mol and between an ethyl and an H is 1.00 kcal/mol.)
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