Consider 1-bromopropane, CH3CH2CH2Br. (a) Draw a Newman projection for the conformation in which !CH3 and !Br are anti  (dihedral angle 1808). (b) Draw Newman projections for the conformations in which !CH3 and !Br are  gauche (dihedral angles 608 and 3008).

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2.34 Consider 1-bromopropane, CH3CH2CH2Br.
(a) Draw a Newman projection for the conformation in which !CH3 and !Br are anti 
(dihedral angle 1808).
(b) Draw Newman projections for the conformations in which !CH3 and !Br are 
gauche (dihedral angles 608 and 3008).
(c) Which of these is the lowest energy conformation?
(d) Which of these conformations, if any, are related by reflection? 

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