Indicate whether or not the following are chiral (assume thereis no writing or m
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Indicate whether or not the following are chiral (assume thereis no writing or markings on them). Hint: an electric fan has slanted blades a. a shoe b. a baseball bat c. a car d. a baseball glove e. a screw f. a spoon g. a cup h. an electric fan Indicate whether or not the following are chiral (assume thereis no writing or markings on them). Hint: an electric fan has slanted blades a. a shoe b. a baseball bat c. a car d. a baseball glove e. a screw f. a spoon g. a cup h. an electric fan a. a shoe b. a baseball bat c. a car d. a baseball glove e. a screw f. a spoon g. a cup h. an electric fanExplanation / Answer
a. Chiral because you could not superimpose the mirror image of ashoe on the original (look at your right and left shoes, they aremirror images of each other but you could not place them one on topof the other and have them line up). b. Achiral, the mirror image of a baseball bat would besuperposable on the original if you rotate 180 degrees. c. Achiral, same reason as b d. Chiral for the same reason as the shoe (compare a left handedglove to a right handed glove) e. Achiral, same reason as b f. Achiral, same reason as b g. Achiral, same reasonas b h. Chiral, since the fan has slanted blades the blades of themirror image would slant the opposite way as the original.