An Aerial Tour Of The Cyclohexane Chair
When I first learned about the cyclohexane chair (as we did in the last post) I was in denial about its importance in organic
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How To Draw A Cyclohexane Chair
How To Properly Draw Your First Cyclohexane Chair, Using The “Parallelogram Technique” Now that we’ve had an aerial tour of the cyclohexane chair, we’re going to
Read moreThe Cyclohexane Chair Flip
In our last post, an aerial tour of the cyclohexane chair, we showed that there are two different positions a substituting can occupy on a
Read moreThe Cyclohexane Chair Flip – Energy Diagram
In the last post, we showed a video of a cyclohexane ring flip – turning a cyclohexane chair conformation into a boat and then into
Read moreSubstituted Cyclohexanes – Equatorial vs Axial
Just to bring you up to speed, let’s quickly review the last post. And at the bottom, I’ll also correct a little fib I made. 1.
Read moreSubstituted Cyclohexanes: “A Values”
In the last post we saw that adding a methyl group to cyclohexane results in two chair conformers that are unequal in energy. We saw that the conformer
Read moreWhich Cyclohexane Chair Is Of Lower Energy?
In the last post, we introduced A values and said they were a useful tool for determining which groups are “bulkiest” on a cyclohexane ring.
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