A racemic mixture is a mixture of two different enantiomers, present in almost equal amounts. In a racemic mixture Dextro…
Stereochemistry
Torsional strain is the destabilization of a molecule caused by the eclipsing of groups present on the adjacent atoms. It…
Robert Sidney Cahn, Christopher Kelk Ingold, and Vladimir Prelog came up with a system of nomenclature in 1965, that assigned…
Among organic compounds, alkenes are one of the most difficult ones to name. This difficulty arises from the ‘geometrical isomers’…
Anomeric carbon is the carbonyl carbon (aldehydic or ketonic functional group) of open chain carbohydrates which becomes the stereogenic center…
Epimers are stereoisomers, and to be exact, they are a pair of diastereomers with more than one chiral center but…
Glucose, also known as dextrose is the most common simple sugar (monosaccharide). It has two isomeric structures, i.e. dextrose-(D) glucose…
Aldoses and ketoses and monosaccharides (simple sugar molecules) with differences in the type of functional groups. Aldoses are monosaccharide molecules…
Chiral compounds are optically active molecules that are non-superimposable on their mirror images. Achiral compounds are optically inactive molecules that…
RS nomenclature is currently the preferred system for assigning absolute configuration to chiral molecules. The letters R and S come…