Answer to Question #100948 in Chemistry for Abhishek

Question

What are anomers? Explain the existence of anomers in sugars taking D-glucose as an illustrative case.

Answer 1

Anomers are cyclic monosaccharides that are different in the configuration at the anomeric carbon. Anomers of cyclic D-glucose contain OH group at different sides of the glucopyranose ring. These two D-glucose anomers are referred to alfa-D-glucose andbeta-D-glucose.