Organic Chemistry I

 

Professor Carl C. Wamser

Chapter 3 HW Answers

1. Although cis and trans should only be applied to disubstituted cycloalkanes, one stereoisomer could be unambiguously called all-cis-1,2,3-trimethylcyclohexane.

Write both chair conformations and predict which is more stable.

Do the same for the all-cis-1,2,4- and all-cis-1,3,5- isomers.