Question #a49f8
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Dec 24, 2015
The Haworth projection for α-D-glucose is
Explanation:
1. A chiral carbon has four different groups attached.
α-D-Glucose has no plane of symmetry, so all the carbon atoms are different.
There are five chiral carbons:
2. Three hydroxyl groups are below the plane of the ring.
3.
4. Three of the ring hydrogens (on