ISOMERISM IN ORGANIC COMPOUNDS

CONFORMATIONS OF CYCLOHEXANE

"  Conformations are various forms of a molecule which arise due to C-C single bond rotation." 

Cyclohexane exist in two forms called chair and boat forms.

Cyclohexane contains totally 12 C-H bonds. These bonds are classified into two types axial bonds and equitorial bonds.

 Axial bonds (blue coloured ) are those parallel to the molecular axis

Equitorial bonds(red coloured) are those at 70 or 110 degree to the molecular axis.


The chair form can interconvert itself to another chair form where all the axial bonds become equitorial and vice versa.

i.e., in the fig. now all the red becomes axial and all the blue become equitorial.