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The lone pair repels other electrons slightly more than bonding electrons repel other electrons. You can think of the lone pair as being slightly bigger. Since the axial electrons are more crowded, a lone pair on the axial position would have a slightly
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I was using Spartan and we needed to build some molecules and see if was saw any interesting properties.
I came across building Cyclohexane with a cyanide functional group attach to it (sorry I haven't learned the proper naming system yet)
The cyano substituent in the axial position produces approx 0.4kJ/mol per 1,3-diaxial interaction, so the total strain the program should display is 0.8kJ/mol, while the equatorial position has zero strain. Make sure the ring flipped cyclohexanecarbonitrile
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which is more stable?
2) Trans-1,3-dimethylcylohexane with CH3 group axial and the other equatorial, do ring flips and examine the 2 chair conformations, which is more stable? Given the 2 isomers, trans 1,3-dimethylcyclohexane and cis-1,3-dimethlcyclohexane,