{"id":8209,"date":"2014-05-20T15:27:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T19:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.masterorganicchemistry.com\/?p=8209"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:56:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T16:56:19","slug":"how-to-draw-a-cyclohexane-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterorganicchemistry.com\/2014\/05\/20\/how-to-draw-a-cyclohexane-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Draw The Cyclohexane Chair Conformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Easily Draw Your First Cyclohexane Chair Using the “Parallelogram Technique”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that we’ve had an\u00a0aerial tour of the cyclohexane chair<\/a>, we’re going to move on to a very important skill:\u00a0how to properly draw one of these beasties.<\/p>\n

There are several techniques for properly drawing a cyclohexane chair.<\/p>\n

Here is one method that breaks it down into drawing a series of 3 sets of parallel lines.<\/p>\n

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Another method is starting by drawing a parallelogram.<\/p>\n

In the video below, I walk through what I consider to be the most completely idiot-proof way to draw a serviceable chair, by first drawing a parallelogram<\/strong> (something you should already know how to do). Using this as the “base” of our chair, we then draw flaps moving up and down (representing the head and footrest), then put in the axial and equatorial groups.<\/p>\n

Importantly, we can use this method to draw a chair in either the “left hand” or the “right hand” version of a cyclohexane chair, which becomes important, once we learn about chair flips (that’s next!)<\/p>\n