Boat and Chair forms

Introduction: Sachse and Mohr (1918) argued that cycloalkanes beyond cyclopentane could be stable if all the ring carbons were not constrained to lie in a single plane, as previously believed by Baeyer. This would result in a ring structure that is free of strain and, thus, more stable. Sachse-Mohr’s “Strainless Rings” concept is a theoretical … Read more