Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids Practice Problems

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• Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids for Organic Chemistry

Carbohydrates and Nucleic Acids Practice Problems

Practice 1

Write structural formulas for (i) an aldotriose, (ii) a ketohexose, (iii) a deoxypentose.

Solution 1

Practice 2

How do epimers and anomers differ?

Solution 2

Epimers differ in configuration about a single chiral center in molecules with more than one chiral center. Anomers are epimers in which the chiral site was formerly a carbonyl C.