what is meant by inversion of chair conformation of cyclohexane
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Because it minimizes so-called trans-annular interactions.
In a chair conformation, each face of the cyclohexane ring has 3 axial substituents, whose interaction is sterically unfavourable. This is to be compared with boat and twist-boat conformations whose substituents tend to eclipse each other to give unfavourable steric interactions.
This answer is no substitute for actually making a model, and observing trans-annular interactions in three dimensions.
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In a chair conformation, each face of the cyclohexane ring has 3 axial substituents, whose interaction is sterically unfavourable. This is to be compared with boat and twist-boat conformations whose substituents tend to eclipse each other to give unfavourable steric interactions.
This answer is no substitute for actually making a model, and observing trans-annular interactions in three dimensions.
Hopefully mark has brilliantleast.
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