beta glycosidic bond (linkage)

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Introduction

A glycosidic linkage in which the linking oxygen atom attached to C1 is below the plane of the ring in a Hawthorne projection. For pyranoses in the chair form, this translates to an equatorial anomeric C-O-R (where R is linked sugar).

More general terms

References

  1. Biochemistry, L. Stryer, WH Freeman & Co, New York, 1988 pg 337-338