1) Carbohydrate chemistry
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In carbohydrate chemistry, an anomer is a special type of epimer. It is one of two stereoisomers of a cyclic saccharide that differs only in its configuration at the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon, also called the anomeric carbon. Put simply, the anomeric carbon is the carbonyl carbon, for example a ketone or aldehyde functional group, in a carboh...
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(from the article `chemical compound`) ...carbon atom (denoted C5). The hemiacetal can be formed with its new hydroxyl group either projected down () or projected up (). These hemiacetal ...
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<biochemistry> Stereoisomers of a sugar which differ only in how they are configured about their respective carbonyl (anomeric) carbon atom. Interconversion (mutarotation) is anomerisation and is promoted by mutarotases (aldose epimerases). ... (13 Oct 1997) ...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: an′ō-mer Definitions: 1. One of two sugar molecules that are epimeric at the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon atom (carbon-1 in aldoses, carbon-2 in most ketoses), α-d-glucose and β-d-glucose.
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