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  2. Equatorial coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    A right-handed convention, specifying a y axis 90° to the east in the fundamental plane and a z axis along Earth 's north polar axis. This frame is in every way equivalent to the ξ, η, ζ frame, above, except that the origin is removed to the centre of the Sun. It is commonly used in planetary orbit calculation.

  3. A value - Wikipedia

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    A value. The A-value for a methyl group is 1.74 as derived from the chemical equilibrium above. This means it costs 1.74 kcal/mol (7.3 kJ/mol) of energy to have a methyl group in the axial position compared to the equatorial position. A-values are numerical values used in the determination of the most stable orientation of atoms in a molecule ...

  4. Cyclohexane conformation - Wikipedia

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    A cyclohexane molecule in chair conformation. Hydrogen atoms in axial positions are shown in red, while those in equatorial positions are in blue. Cyclohexane conformations are any of several three-dimensional shapes adopted by molecules of cyclohexane. Because many compounds feature structurally similar six-membered rings, the structure and ...

  5. Ring flip - Wikipedia

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    The conformer of methylcyclohexane with equatorial methyl is favored by 1.74 kcal/mol (7.3 kJ/mol) relative to the conformer where methyl is axial. In organic chemistry, a ring flip (also known as a ring inversion or ring reversal) is the interconversion of cyclic conformers that have equivalent ring shapes (e.g., from a chair conformer to ...

  6. Conformational isomerism - Wikipedia

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    In the case of cyclic systems, the steric effect and contribution to the free energy can be approximated by A values, which measure the energy difference when a substituent on cyclohexane in the axial as compared to the equatorial position. In large (>14 atom) rings, there are many accessible low-energy conformations which correspond to the ...

  7. Bent's rule - Wikipedia

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    Trigonal bipyramid molecules have both with axial and equatorial positions. If there are two types of substituents, the more electronegative substituent will prefer the axial position as there are smaller bond angles between axial and electronegative substituents than between two equatorial substituents. [23]

  8. Orbital inclination - Wikipedia

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    Orbits. The inclination is one of the six orbital elements describing the shape and orientation of a celestial orbit. It is the angle between the orbital plane and the plane of reference, normally stated in degrees. For a satellite orbiting a planet, the plane of reference is usually the plane containing the planet's equator.

  9. Anomeric effect - Wikipedia

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    The α- and β-anomers of D-glucopyranose.. In organic chemistry, the anomeric effect or Edward-Lemieux effect (after J. T. Edward and Raymond Lemieux) is a stereoelectronic effect that describes the tendency of heteroatomic substituents adjacent to a heteroatom within a cyclohexane ring to prefer the axial orientation instead of the less-hindered equatorial orientation that would be expected ...