BIOL 2083 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Coniferyl Alcohol, Haworth Projection, Fischer Projection
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Aldose: a sugar that contains an aldehyde group as part of its structure. Amylopectin: a form of starch; a branched chain polymer of glucose. Amylose: a form of starch; a linear polymer of glucose. Anomer: one of the possible stereoisomers formed when a sugar assumes the cyclic form. Anomeric carbon: the chiral center created when a sugar cyclizes. Cellulose: a polymer of glucose; an important structural material in plants. Configuration: the three-dimensional arrangement of groups around a chiral carbon atom. Deoxy sugar: a sugar in which one of the hydroxyl groups has been reduced to a hydrogen. Disaccharide: two monosaccharides (monomeric sugars) linked by a glycosidic bond. Epimers: stereoisomers that differ only in configuration around one of several chiral carbon atoms. Fischer projection: a two-dimensional representation of the stereochemistry of three- dimensional molecules: Furanose: a cyclic sugar with a six-membered ring, named for its resemblance to the ring system in furan.
