Chapter 6, Problem 6.62AP

Summary Introduction

To draw:

The $\alpha$ and $\beta$ anomer of D-fructose.

Introduction:

A carbon which has all the four different atoms or group of atoms has tetrahedral geometry and such carbon molecule is referred as the chiral carbon. The two different forms in which a single chiral center can exist is referred as enantiomers. The number of enantiomers of a molecule depends on the number of chiral centers.