What is Mutarotation?
The term “mutarotation” originates from the observed change in the optical rotation of the alpha- and beta- anomers of glucose upon dissolution in water. Due
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Pyranoses and Furanoses: Ring-Chain Tautomerism In Sugars
The Many Forms Of Glucose What’s the structure of glucose? A simple question! but one with many “right” answers. The first question to ask, which we covered
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Man, is there ever a lot of sugar nomenclature to know! This post aims to collect the most commonly encountered terms in a typical second-semester
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