Chiral Dice
Recent visitors to my office have been confronted with this on the white board:
How many stereoisomers of a die?
I want to clean it off, so I’m posting it here. It dates from a visit we had from Ben Davis last year as the Cornforth Lecturer. He was telling me that Ken Izumori from Kagawa has a collection (in, I think, wood) of all the possible stereoisomers of a die. This got me thinking about how many there are, and the picture’s the analysis. There’s probably a way of using this to cheat in a casino. Which would make one enantioenriched I guess.
Jonathan Clayden is discussing. 
Intermolecular 
Jonathan Clayden 2:09 am on January 19, 2010 Permalink |
Hi Matt – There are two sets of 8 like this, one set with the long axis of the 6 pointing towards the 4 and one set with the long axis of the 6 pointing towards the 5. I have found 10 of the 16 possible in various games, toyshops etc etc…