Chair conformational isomer

[chiddler]

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I'm looking at basic cyclohexane. Is it accurate to describe the most stable conformational isomers of carbon out of plane-carbon in plane as gauche? What about the other carbons?

Meaning what conformational isomer form (anti, gauche) are carbons-carbon bonds in a cyclohexane in?

I didn't really think of bonds in a chair as having conformational isomers, but TBR is cool like that.

 

[MedPR]

I'm looking at basic cyclohexane. Is it accurate to describe the most stable conformational isomers of carbon out of plane-carbon in plane as gauche? What about the other carbons?

Meaning what conformational isomer form (anti, gauche) are carbons-carbon bonds in a cyclohexane in?

I didn't really think of bonds in a chair as having conformational isomers, but TBR is cool like that.

I didn't know you could think of the carbons in cyclohexane as gauche or anti. I thought those terms were for substituents on the cyclohexane.

 

[chiddler]

I didn't know you could think of the carbons in cyclohexane as gauche or anti. I thought those terms were for substituents on the cyclohexane.

Makes sense...

What should I make of this question? Not asking for an explanation of the question per se (I understand it), but rather: what are the implications of a question like this?

 

[MedPR]

Makes sense...

What should I make of this question? Not asking for an explanation of the question per se (I understand it), but rather: what are the implications of a question like this?

Just knowing that interactions only occur between substituents on neighboring carbons. So 1,4 substituents don't interact with each other.

I know you said you aren't asking an explanation, but this will help me and maybe ring a bell in your head as well. For answer A, gauche CH3/H means the CH3 on Carbon 1 with an H on Carbon 2 and/or Carbon 6. Or it could mean the CH3 on Carbon 4 with an H on Carbon 3 and/or Carbon 5. Same is true for B, except anti instead of gauche.

 

[chiddler]

Yeah I think you're right.

Thanks very much for the help.