Cyclohexane: Tracing the Chair Conformation

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Cyclohexane: Tracing the Chair Conformation

The shadow of the molecular model is traced to show how the cyclohexane chair structure can be drawn on paper.


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A model of the chair conformation of cyclohexane is oriented so that its outline reveals the shadow of a chair. Tracing the projection of this outline shows how the chair conformation is portrayed on a flat piece of paper. First, the outline of the carbon skeleton is drawn, then the positions of the hydrogen atoms. Notice there are 2 types of bonds in chair cyclohexane - axial bonds that are perpendicular to the ring and equatorial bonds that are roughly in the plane of the ring.

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