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Cyclohexane Ring Flip (2D): Axial-Equatorial Conformers

2D ball-and-stick cyclohexane ring flip rendered with hand-rolled canvas projection: drag to orbit, scrub the chair-boat-chair pathway, and read live ring-strain energy, an energy landscape graph and Boltzmann axial/equatorial populations from real A-values.

Chemistry & Materials2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Cyclohexane never sits flat — it puckers into a chair to escape torsional strain, and that chair can flip into its mirror-image chair through a high-energy boat pathway. This 2D build reproduces the exact same ring geometry as the 3D version — the same pucker function, the same axial-to-equatorial bond rotation — but projects it onto a canvas with a hand-rolled orbit camera you drag directly, alongside a live energy-landscape graph and a Boltzmann population panel, all drawn on one multi-panel canvas. Scrub the flip slider or hit auto-flip to watch the substituent swing continuously from axial to equatorial while ring-strain and steric energy update in real time, and slide the temperature to see the axial/equatorial equilibrium shift from the substituent's real A-value.

⚙ Under the hood

A hand-rolled 2D canvas projection of a real cyclohexane chair puckers, flips through a boat intermediate and back into the mirror-image chair, swinging a chosen substituent smoothly from axial to equatorial. Drag to orbit the ball-and-stick view while linked panels plot the energy landscape and the Boltzmann axial/equatorial population from its real A-value.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install