Compare the energies for both diaxial and diequatorial chair conformers of
trans-2-fluorocyclohexanol. State the relative importance of steric and electron factors in these systems?
The energy of diaxial chair conformers of trans-2-fluorocyclohexanol(shown in image below) will be compareatively less than that of diequatorial chair conformers of trans-2-fluorocyclohexanol. The reason being the Steric repulsion between the fluorine and -OH groups present in close proximity in the diequatorial conformation, whereas in the diaxial conformation they are far apart and they have only a small repulsion from the hydrogen atom present in close proximity to them.As the functional groups and bonds are nothing but electron clouds, when they are present at very close to each other, electronic clouds repsel each other, and it is where the sterric factors give rise to higher energy of the diequatorial conformer.
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