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Cyclohexane: Chair and Boat Conformations

Chair and boat conformations of cyclohexane are demonstrated.

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File: MOVIES/TRAM02/0114028.MOV

Voiceover
The chair conformation of cyclohexane can be twisted into the boat conformation. Further twisting results in a second chair conformation. By labeling one axial substituent with a white sphere you can see how the axial position of one chair becomes equatorial by twisting into the second chair conformation.

Discussion
Ball-and-stick and space-filling models of cyclohexane are shown in the chair conformation. The fourth picture shows the axial substituents labeled with green and the equatorial labeled with white spheres.



     


     

Design, Text and Demonstrator:  
  Gary Trammell University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62794
Videographer/Editor:  
  Steve Dykema University of Illinois at Springfield, Springfield, IL 62794
Voice:  
  Margaret Biddle University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706
Audio Production:  
  Greg Minix University of Wisconsin - Madison, College of Engineering, Madison, WI 53706
  Jerrold J. Jacobsen University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI 53706