which confirmation of Cyclo-octane is less stable
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Hendrickson noted that "cyclooctane is unquestionably the conformationally most complex cycloalkane owing to the existence of many conformers of comparable energy". The boat-chair conformation (below) is the most stable
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Boat conformation is the least stable, with the highest strength, has steric hindrance on carbon 1 and carbon 4 between the two equatorial hydrogens, and has torsional stress, as each bond almost fully ellipses other bonds in the Newman projection.
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