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Glucose

Question

Number of aldo hexoses possible are

Moderate

A

4
B

8
C

16
D

24

Solution

Number of chiral carbon atoms in glucose are four;
Number of optical isomers= $2^{4}$ =16;
Number of enantiomeric pairs=8;
Thus eight aldohexoses are possible…Glucose,Gulose,Galactose,Allose,Altrose,Mannose,Talose and Idose;

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