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Ring Reversal (or ring inversion) definition

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The interconversion by rotation about single bonds (coupled with angle deformation in the transition state) of cyclic conformers having equivalent ring shapes (e.g. chair chair) though not necessarily equivalent spatial positions of substituents (e.g. equatorial axial)

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