D and L Sugars
What differentiates “D-glucose” from “L-glucose” ? Or D-alanine from L-alanine? What’s this D- and L- nomenclature, anyway? For everyone in a rush, here is the
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The Meso Trap
Question: Are these molecules enantiomers, diastereomers, or the same? If you immediately recognized this as a molecule with an internal plane of symmetry (and thus
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I got a very excited call from Walter yesterday. He was looking out the window of his apartment in Talbieh and spied a freaky looking
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