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Chapter 5: Q31c. (page 148)

Which of the following objects are chiral?

(a) A basketball

(b) A fork

(c) A wine glass

(d) A golf club

(e) A spiral staircase

(f) A snowflake

(c)

Short Answer

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None of the objects are chiral

Step by step solution

01

Definition of chiral.

Chiral objects are those which have non-superimposable mirror images of each other.

02

Check Chirality.

The dashed line represents the mirror.

It is known that wine glass has a superimposable mirror image, hence it is not chiral.

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Orient each of the following drawings so that the lowest-ranked group is toward the rear, and then assign R or S configuration

Which of the following objects are chiral?

(a) A basketball

(b) A fork

(c) A wine glass

(d) A golf club

(e) A spiral staircase

(f) A snowflake

(d)

Ribose, an essential part of ribonucleic acid (RNA), has the following structure:

(a) How many chirality centers does ribose have? Identify them.

(b) How many stereoisomers of ribose are there?

(c) Draw the structure of the enantiomer of ribose.

(d) Draw the structure of a diastereomer of ribose.

(S)-1-Chloro-2-methylbutane undergoes light-induced reaction with Cl2to yield a mixture of products, among which are 1,4-dichloro-2-methylbutane and 1,2-dichloro-2-methylbutane.

  1. Write the reaction, showing the correct stereochemistry of the reactant.
  2. One of the two products is optically active, but the other is optically inactive. Which is which?

Assign R or S configurations to each chirality center in the followingmolecules:
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