anomer

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Introduction

One of two sugar molecules that are epimeric at the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon (C1 in aldoses; C2 in most ketoses); e.g. alpha-D glucose & beta-D glucose.

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995