Chair And Boat Shapes for Cyclohexane

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After recapping the tetrahedral shape of a regular methane molecule and the normal 109 degree angles between hydrogens, Salman Khan demonstrates the chair diagram and boat diagram to represent cyclohexane. A main topic in these diagrams is to explain the respective potential energies of the axial and equatorial hydrogen bonds.

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