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Glucose

Question

$α$ –D-glucopyranose and $β$ –D–glucopyranose can be called as all the following except

Easy

A

Enantiomers
B

anomers
C

Diastereomers
D

$C_{1}$ epimers

Solution

$α - D - Glucose and β - D - Glucose$ differ in their configuration at anomeric carbon (functional group) only.
$∴$ They are anomers, diastereomers but not enantiomers.
Anomers are $C_{1}$ epimers in aldoses.

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