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A FEW years ago, Hendrickson1 suggested that the transition state in the inversion of the chair form of the Sachse hexagon in cyclohexane was one in which half the molecule is in the planar Baeyer form and the other half in the Sachse chair form. This suggestion has recently been accepted by Anderson2. However, for various reasons, it is difficult to accept this idea.
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CHRISTIANSEN, J. Transition State in the Inversion of the Sachse Hexagon. Nature 211, 184–185 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211184a0
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