calculate total diaxial strain and gauche interaction strain of two chair confermer given
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What we notice is that the methyl at the equatorial position is pointing away from the ring and has plenty of space. On the other hand, when the methyl is axial, it lacks space (steric interaction) mainly due to the hydrogens that are also on axial pistons.
Notice also that, these groups (the axial methyl and the hydrogens) are one-carbon apart and if we number, we can see that their relative position is 1,3 and that is why it is called 1,3-diaxial interaction:
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