Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition
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Author: Paula Yurkanis Bruice
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Chapter 3.9, Problem 32P
- a. Draw the three staggered conformations and the three eclipsed conformers of butane for rotation about the C-1—C-2 bond. (The carbon in the foreground in a Newman projection should have the lower number.)
- b. Do the three staggered conformations have the same energy?
- c. Do the three eclipsed conformations have the same energy?
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substituents.
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Consider 1,2-dimethylcyclohexane.
a.Draw structures for the cis and trans isomers using a hexagon for the sixmembered ring.
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Essential Organic Chemistry, Global Edition
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