Cyclohexane ring inversion

In a chair-to-chair inversion the ring passes through half-chair, twist-boat, and boat shapes, and every axial substituent emerges equatorial (and vice versa).

Drag the slider to walk the ring through the inversion and watch the positions swap.

chair · 0.0 kcal/mol

axial at the start equatorial at the start axial right now
chair flipped chair