Nurturing Life Sciences
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#XL - T Zoology
When the anomeric hydroxyl of a D-hexose is on the same side of the ring as C-6, the structure is β a by definition; when it is on the opposite side from C-6, the structure is α.
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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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Two sugars that differ in configuration at only one chiral center are described as epimers.
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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