Examples of Chirality


Cape Hatteras Light House - Which one is it?

Assume that the staircase in the lighthouse is of the same chirality as the exterior pattern. Which lighthouse would make a better medieval fortress? Click here.



The Caduceus Every pre-med student should know this.



The majority of righthanders make the pretzel on the right, lefthanders the one on the left. These two pretzels are non-superimposable

mirror images of one another created by inverting the image. Here is the real deal.


Borremean Rings


Michelangelo

 

M.C. Escher -Drawing Hands - (1948)- The original on the left has a right and left hand creating a chiral arrangement. Its mirror image is on the right. The Escher drawing and its mirror image is no different from the equilibrium of cis-1,2-dimethylcyclohexane (below). The hands rise out of the paper and exchange places in the same way that the methyl groups function in the chair interconversion.