Hyperconjugation and Electrons Repulsion in Staggered and Eclipsed Conformations of Ethane
The main destabilizing factor of the Eclipsed conformation is the electron repulsion between the aligned C-H bonds. In the contrary, the stabilization of staggered conformation is due to hyperconjugation achieved via the anti-periplanar arrangement of the C-H bonding orbital with the antibonding orbital of the other C-H bond on the neighboring carbon.
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