Monosaccharides that contain five or more carbon atoms form cyclic structures in aqueous solutions. Many…

Glycosidic linkages are hydrolyzed, or broken, through the addition of a water molecule and a…

Epimers and anomers are types of stereoisomers of carbohydrates that differ in the position at…

Polysaccharides are long chains of monosaccharides linked together by glycosidic bonds. The chain of a…

Disaccharides are sugars composed of two monosaccharide units that are joined by glycosidic linkages and…

Monosaccharides are simple sugars and the most basic units of carbohydrates. Monosaccharides have the general…

The three-dimensional arrangement of the groups attached to the chiral carbon determines the absolute configuration…

Carbohydrates can be named based on the length of the carbon chain, the functional groups…

Carbohydrates are macromolecules containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen and are represented by the stoichiometric formula…