KAPLAN MCAT PRACTICE PROBLEM

Kaplan MCAT

PRACTICE PROBLEM

QUESTION

The formation of α-d-glucopyranose from -d-glucopyranose is called:

A. glycosidation B. mutarotation C. enantiomerization D. racemization

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choice (A), is the addition of a sugar to another compound formation of a mirror-image or optically inverted form of a compound. Glycosidation, ization and racemization, choices (C) and (D), mean the same thing as each other: the B. Mutarotation is the interconversion between anomers of a compound. Enantiomer-

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