lower in energy.
we're learning about aromatic conformations and where the substituents should go on them. and one of the things i remember hearing was that the substituents want to be on the equatorial position; and i heard this over and over when we were working with chair conformations of hexane, but i was wondering if this was true for all the other ring conformations like boat, cyclopentane, cycloheptane, cycloocane, etc etc