Organic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
6th Edition
ISBN: 9781936221349
Author: Marc Loudon, Jim Parise
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
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Chapter 24, Problem 24.5P
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Interpretation:

The pair of epimers and enantiomers is to be identified.

Concept introduction:

Enantiomers are the isomers which are non-superimposable mirror images of each other.

Epimers are those isomers which differ in configuration only at one carbon of the many asymmetric carbons present in a carbohydrate compound.

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