Chapter 6, Problem 1IA.6Q

Summary Introduction

To identify:

The chiral centers on $\text{D-glucose}$ with an asterisk.

Introduction:

Chiral centers are the atoms that have tetrahedral geometry consisting of four different substituents. These molecules contain at least one carbon and that carbon atom is said to be a chiral center. They are mirror images of one another which mean that they are non-superimposable on their mirror images. If two or more same substituents are present then they are not chiral molecules.