True or False: D-enantiomer is a mirror image of L-enantiomer In a D-carbohydrate, the hydroxyl group on the chiral carbon farther from the carbonyl group points to the right. L-carbohydrates are preferred by the humans when processing them after ingestion.
Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are the organic compounds that are obtained in foods and living matters in the shape of sugars, cellulose, and starch. The general formula of carbohydrates is Cn(H2O)2. The ratio of H and O present in carbohydrates is identical to water.
Starch
Starch is a polysaccharide carbohydrate that belongs to the category of polysaccharide carbohydrates.
Mutarotation
The rotation of a particular structure of the chiral compound because of the epimerization is called mutarotation. It is the repercussion of the ring chain tautomerism. In terms of glucose, this can be defined as the modification in the equilibrium of the α- and β- glucose anomers upon its dissolution in the solvent water. This process is usually seen in the chemistry of carbohydrates.
L Sugar
A chemical compound that is represented with a molecular formula C6H12O6 is called L-(-) sugar. At the carbon’s 5th position, the hydroxyl group is placed to the compound’s left and therefore the sugar is represented as L(-)-sugar. It is capable of rotating the polarized light’s plane in the direction anticlockwise. L isomers are one of the 2 isomers formed by the configurational stereochemistry of the carbohydrates.
True or False:
- D-enantiomer is a mirror image of L-enantiomer
- In a D-carbohydrate, the hydroxyl group on the chiral carbon farther from the carbonyl group points to the right.
- L-carbohydrates are preferred by the humans when processing them after ingestion.
- Sugars that have the cyclic hemiacetal; groups on the anomeric carbon atom are reducing sugars
- In the beta-D –galactose the hydroxyl group on the anomeric carbon atom points up or above the plane of the paper.
- Maltose is a non-reducing sugar and does not have a hemi acetal group.
- Sucrose contain a hemiacetal group and hence a reducing sugar.
- Linen is prepared from cellulose
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