How to Draw Cyclohexane Chair Conformations and Ring Flips

Does drawing cyclohexane make you feel like you’re taking an art class? This video shows you a simple step-by-step approach for easily drawing cyclohexane hexagons, chairs, and ring flips.
We’re not looking at perfecting your art skills, instead, we’re looking for a stress-free approach that makes your molecules and substituents look TOO obvious for your professor to deduct points for ambiguity.

In this video:
[0:53] Drawing cyclohexane
[2:04] Drawing chair conformations
[4:11] Arranging Axial/Equatorial substituents
[5:47] understanding the middle substituents
[6:30] Chair Conformation sample problem
[10:27] How to do a ring flip

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[AllTheButtons]

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Thank you so much for this amazing video! I finally understood the chair flip, my professors never even mentioned how to do it. I feel way better about my upcoming exam!

[shuhada]

Thank you so much for explaining the topic so clearly, I used to get a bit confused with the wedged/hashed lines and whether they will turn axial or equatorial in the chair conformation. Now I feel excited to practice😚

[leynanguyen]

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