“…[150][151][152] This effect was examined in a more systematic way using a series of cyclohexanones and methylenecyclohexanes with polar substituents at C(3) that were sufficiently large to lock the conformation of the ring. 12 As with the polycyclic probes discussed earlier, electronegative β-substitution was found to increase the syn preference (the relative yield of axial approach) in several reactions, widely differing from the point of view of the transition-state polarization, geometry, and electron deficiency, The effect of γ-substitution on the stereochemistry of nucleophilic additions to cyclohexanones was investigated in metal hydride reductions, organometallic alkylations, and sulfur ylide alkylations of 4-X-cyclohexanones, 35,145,153 2-, 3-, and 4-tertbutyl-4-X-cyclohexanones, [154][155][156] 10-X-trans-decal-2ones, 138,139,141,142,157 and 4-X-trans-decal-1-ones. 112,157 It is useful in this discussion to consider separately the effect of the equatorial and axial γ-substitution.…”