Chapter 28: Question 28.47 (page 1148)
D-Arabinose can exist in both pyranose and furanose forms.
- Draw the anomers of D-arabinofuranose.
- Draw the anomers of D-arabinopyranose.
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(a.)
and

(b.)
and

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Chapter 28: Question 28.47 (page 1148)
D-Arabinose can exist in both pyranose and furanose forms.
Answer
(a.)
and

(b.)
and

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Consider the following six compounds (A-F).

How are the two compounds in each pair related? Choose from enantiomers, epimers, diastereomers but not epimers, constitutional isomers, and identical compounds.
(a) Draw the more stable chair form of fucose, an essential monosaccharide needed in the diet and a component of carbohydrates on mammalian and plant cell surfaces. (b) Classify fucose as a D- or L-monosaccharide. (c) What two structural features are unusual in fucose?
(a) Why can’t two purine bases (A and G) form a base pair and hydrogen bond to each other on two strands of DNA in the double helix? (b) Why is hydrogen bonding between guanine and cytosine more favorable than hydrogen bonding between guanine and thymine?
Draw a Fischer projection of the monosaccharide from which each of the following glycosides was prepared.

Which aldoses are oxidized to optically inactive aldaric acids: (a) D-erythrose; (b) D-lyxose; (c) D-galactose?
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