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4. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes

Axial vs Equatorial

4. Alkanes and Cycloalkanes

Axial vs Equatorial

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What is a chair conformation?

What is a chair conformation?

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How chairs flip from one conformation to another

How chairs flip from one conformation to another

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How chairs flip from one conformation to another

How chairs flip from one conformation to another

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Textbook Question

This is a Newman projection of a substituted cyclohexane.

b. Draw the equivalent structure using wedge and dash notation on a cyclohexane hexagon.

Textbook Question

This is a Newman projection of a substituted cyclohexane. a. Draw the equivalent chair form.

Textbook Question

For each of the following disubstituted cyclohexanes, indicate whether the substituents in the two chair conformers are both equatorial in one chair conformer and both axial in the other or one equatorial and one axial in each of the chair conformers: e. cis-1,4- f. trans-1,4-

Textbook Question

For each of the following disubstituted cyclohexanes, indicate whether the substituents in the two chair conformers are both equatorial in one chair conformer and both axial in the other or one equatorial and one axial in each of the chair conformers: c. cis-1,3- d. trans-1,3-

Textbook Question

For each of the following disubstituted cyclohexanes, indicate whether the substituents in the two chair conformers are both equatorial in one chair conformer and both axial in the other or one equatorial and one axial in each of the chair conformers: a. cis-1,2- b. trans-1,2-

Textbook Question

Draw 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexachlorocyclohexane with a. all the chloro groups in axial positions. b. all the chloro groups in equatorial positions.

Textbook Question

a. Draw Newman projections of the two conformers of cis-1,3-dimethylcyclohexane. b. Which of the conformers predominates at equilibrium?

Textbook Question

This is a Newman projection of a substituted cyclohexane. c. Give the IUPAC name.

Textbook Question

a. Draw the two chair conformers for each of the stereoisomers of trans-1-tert-butyl-3-methylcyclohexane.

Textbook Question

Draw 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexamethylcyclohexane with all the methyl groups a. in axial positions.

Textbook Question

Draw 1,2,3,4,5,6-hexamethylcyclohexane with all the methyl groups

b. in equatorial positions.

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