Enumeration of staggered conformers of alkanes and monocyclic cycloalkanes

Staggered conformers of alkanes are represented by systems which can be embedded in the diamond lattice. Previous enumerations of alkane systems (acyclic) are supplemented. Original contributions are supplied to the numbers and symmetries of monocyclic staggered cycloalkanes, of which cyclohexane is the key structure. These systems are represented by single cycles on the diamond lattice. In particular, the generation of monocyclic staggered cycloalkanes by successive addition of cyclohexane rings is treated in details. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.