This compound's structure is the simplest repeating unit in chiralane and twistane.
This compound's structure is the simplest repeating unit in chiralane and twistane. 28 people were killed in Flixborough, England in 1974 when a factory oxidizing this compound into KA oil exploded. Steric effects are quantified by determining the difference in free energy when a substituent is placed on this molecule, a difference called the A value. Two molecules of this compound are fused together in decalin. To minimize flagpole interactions, this compound undergoes a 10.8 kcal pseudorotation. The twist boat is a conformer of this compound, though in its stablest form, half the hydrogens are equatorial and half axial; that conformer has zero strain and is called a chair. It is produced through complete hydrogenation of benzene. For 10 points, name this six-membered cycloalkane.
This compound's structure is the simplest repeating unit in chiralane and twistane.
cyclohexane [prompt on C6H12]