i wanted to know what the cyclohexane ring conformations were in each graphene sheet OF graphite.
its the same as in naphthalene, anthracene, benzyo[a]pyrene , (...), i.e. condensed aromats in general: it's planar (but very huge at that)
(...)i heard that natural graphite is a mess; that it's not really clean layers and there are kinks and bumps all over the graphite structure. is this true?
as with almost all crystalline substances dealing with like 10
20 atoms and more: yes, there every once in a while will occur some errors
it is very very very difficult to have really good single crystalline structures at large scale, unless you intentionally make them, and this is true for graphite, also
regards
Ingo