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KCET · Chemistry · General Organic Chemistry

\(\alpha-\mathrm{D}-(+)\)-glucose and \(\beta\)-D-(+)-glucose are

  1. A enantiomers
  2. B conformers
  3. C epimers
  4. D anomers
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(D) anomers

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\(\alpha\)-D-(+)-glucose and \(\beta\)-D-(+)-glucose are called anomers. These are the two cyclic hemiacetal forms of glucose that differ only in the configuration of the hydroxyl group at Cl .