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