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- From: dexter@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (The Gecko)
- Subject: Re: Left-handed sugar
- References: <dexter.725570507@aries> <1992Dec28.231101.13255@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <dexter.725655833@aries> <1992Dec30.163642.16699@ux1.cts.eiu.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:45:04 GMT
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- cfthb@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Howard Black) writes:
-
- >> I'm pretty sure that the enantiomer of D-glucose is L-idose, ie. that
- >>the named designation of a monosaccharide is absolute, rather than relative
- >>to the D/L carbon. This would make D- and L-glucose epimers at C-5, all the
- >>other stereocentres being fixed.
-
- > "Epimer" is a pretty generic term, and usually refers to a single
- >stereocenter. Thus, a phrase might be "epimeric at C-5".
- > This has no bearing on the contention that D- and L-glucose are
- >epimeric only at C-5, which is just wrong. D- and L-Glucose are
- >enantiomers, meaning that all four chiral centers are inverted. If only
- >one stereocenter is changed, you make a diastereomer = different compound
- >with a different name. Look it up.
-
- Apologies for the error. I tried to make it clear I wasn't working
- from a text, but from memory. I'm a few thousand miles from any of my texts
- at present.
-
- I think my use of the term "epimer" was clear, and correct. Epimers
- are diastereomers which vary at only one stereocentre. (Modern usage avoids
- the term "chiral centre", as chirality only exists in the three-dimensional
- context of the molecule.)
-
- Annette
- dexter@aries.scs.uiuc.edu
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