General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry - 4th edition
General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry - 4th edition
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781259883989
Author: by Janice Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 15, Problem 67CP
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Nine chiral centers of sucrose need to be identified.

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Chiral molecules can be defined as molecules that have ability to form mirror images that are nonsuperimposable to each other, and thus exist as enantiomers.

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