Organic Chemistry Please Help!!!?

Question

I have been asked to draw lowest energy conformer of 4-tert-butylcyclohexanone and to mark whether the substituent is an axial or equatorial orientation or neither...
somebody please help..
does this have to be drawn as a newman projection .. im confused. Thank u!

Answer 1

You draw the chair-form of cyclohexane as usual. You put the (CH3)3C- group in an equatorial position (straight out to to the right, not vertical up or down). On the opposite end you put O=< This group cannot be axial or equatorial, because the carbon and oxygen atoms, O=C<, are all in the same plane.

Answer 2

4-tert-butylcyclohexanone Density