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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Reducing Sugars
What’s a reducing sugar, and why is it important? Here’s a quick summary. Full details in the post below. Before We Talk About Reducing Sugars:
Read morePyranoses 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
Read moreConverting a Fischer Projection To A Haworth (And Vice Versa)
Here’s a relatively common problem in the realm of sugar chemistry: “Convert this (sugar) from the Fischer projection to a cyclic pyranose form as a
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