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Any diastereoisomer of a sugar or derivative differing in configuration only at C-1 of an aldose or C-2 of a ketose.
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Anomer — In sugar chemistry, an anomer is a special type of epimer. It is a stereoisomer (diastereomer, more exactly) of a saccharide (in the cyclic form) that differs only in its configuration at the hemiacetal (or hemiketal) carbon, also called the… … Wikipedia
Anomer — A|no|mer [griech. áno̅ = oben; ↑ Isomer], das; s, e; auch A|no|me|re, das; n, n: bei Monosacchariden bes. Bez. für die beiden ↑ Epimeren, die bei Ring Kette Tautomerie infolge Umwandlung der offenkettigen Aldose bzw. Ketose in die cycl.… … Universal-Lexikon
Anomer — Die beiden Anomere der Furanoseform der D Erythrose. Das anomere Zentrum ist hier das Kohlenstoffatom in der rechten Spitze des Moleküls … Deutsch Wikipedia
anomer — One of two sugar molecules that are epimeric at the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon atom (carbon 1 in aldoses, carbon 2 in most ketoses); e.g., α d glucose and β d glucose. SEE ALSO: sugars. Cf.:epimer. * * * an·o·mer an ə mər n a cyclic… … Medical dictionary
anomer — n. one of two sugar molecules that pertain to epimers which differ in the manner they are configured about their respective carbonyl carbon atom … English contemporary dictionary
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Mutarotation — is the change in the optical rotation that occurs by epimerization (that is the change in the equilibrium between two epimers, when the corresponding stereocenters interconvert). Cyclic sugars show mutarotation as α and β anomeric forms… … Wikipedia
Carbohydrate — Carbohydrates (from hydrates of carbon ) or saccharides (Greek σάκχαρον meaning sugar ) are the most abundant of the four major classes of biomolecules, which also include proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. They fill numerous roles in living… … Wikipedia
Anomeric effect — In organic chemistry, the anomeric effect or Edward Lemieux effect is a stereoelectronic effect that describes the tendency of heteroatomic substituents adjacent to a heteroatom within a cyclohexane ring to prefer the axial orientation instead of … Wikipedia
