Organic Chemistry - Standalone book
Organic Chemistry - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780073511214
Author: Francis A Carey Dr., Robert M. Giuliano
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 24.12, Problem 14P
Interpretation Introduction

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The reasons for the classifications in the structural formula for N-acetylneuraminic acid described as a ketose is to be explained and carbon atoms in the nine-carbon chain are to be numbered and the configuration of the highest numbered chirality center is to be determined.

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In carbohydrates, if one of hydroxyl groups is replaced by an amino group, then the sugar is called amino sugar.

The sugar is a ketose sugar in which the anomeric carbon of a pyranose ring bears both, the hydroxyl group and a carbon substituent.

In carbohydrates, there is a possibility of replacement of one or more hydroxyl substituents by some other atoms.

The carbon atom with the highest oxidation state is given number one.

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