Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 1. Molecules and their Interaction Relevant to Biology
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Isomers that have opposite configurations at one or more of the chiral centers but that are not mirror images of each other are called diastereomers
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Two sugars that differ in configuration at only one chiral center are described as epimers.
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d-mannose and d-talose are epimers and d-glucose and d-mannose are epimers, whereas d-glucose and d-talose are not epimers but merely diastereomers
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