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Consider acetaldehyde (ethanal for progressive nomenclaturists). What conformation does it adopt, and why? This question was posed of me by a student at the end of a recent lecture of mine. Surely, an easy answer to give? Read on … There really are only two possibilities, the syn and anti . Well, I have discovered it is useful to start with a search of the Cambridge data base.