4. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes
Calculating Energy Difference Between Chair Conformations
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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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