S.J.B.
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that's news to me. Like all other 1,4 substituted cyclohexanes BDPC is a chiral compound with 2 chiral centres and 4 possible configurations (+)/(-)-cis/trans. You can have both the hydroxy and the amine equatorial (one trans isomer), the hydroxy equatorial and the amine axial (one cis isomer), the hydroxy axial and the amine equatorial, (another cis isomer), or both hydroxy and amine axial (another trans isomer).
4 images of each isomer for your viewing pleasure:
The first two images are of the same compound, with one being the ring-flip of the other. Same with the third and fourth images, although there has also been a 180 degree rotation of the molecule. You have shown, therefore, two diastereomers and two conformations of each diastereomer. There are no enantiomers.
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