This diagram is used to show stereochemistry in carbohydrates.
What is a Fischer projection?
100
The reference compound for D-L stereochemistry.
What is glyceraldehyde?
100
Name this structure (A) - the most common and simplest sugar that we study.
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What is D-glucose?
100
The base name for a five-membered sugar ring.
What is a furanose (ring)?
100
The love of the cocoa bean has been known to originate with what culture?
What are the Mayans?
200
The class of sugar that has the hydroxide group on the last carbon on the left.
What is an L-sugar?
200
This class of sugars have four stereocenters.
What is an aldohexose?
200
Name this structure (B) - the epimer to glucose at the second carbon.
What is D-mannose?
200
The base name for a six-membered sugar.
What is pyranose (ring)?
200
This candy item becomes so popular that the Hershey Company registered it in 1923 for federal trademark protection.
What are Hershey's Kisses?
300
Sugars are (polar/nonpolar) and are water (soluble/insoluble).
Polar and soluble.
300
Two diastereomers that differ in configuration around one stereogenic center only.
What are epimers?
300
Name this structure (C) - the epimer to D-glucose at the fourth carbon.
What is D-galactose?
300
This type of diagram shows a cyclized sugar ring (what a Fischer projection turns into).
What is a Haworth projection?
300
In 1868, this confectioner made the first box of Valentine's Day chocolates.
Who is (Richard) Cadbury?
400
This is what attacks in a cyclization to form a hemiacetal.
What is the 5-C hydroxy group?
400
This is the site of differentiation between forms of the same sugar.
What is the anomeric carbon?
400
Name this structure (D) - a five carbon sugar with all hydroxy groups on the right side.
What is D-ribose?
400
Draw the cyclization mechanism for D-glucose.
See page 1038 in the Smith Organic book.
400
Marshmallow Peeps saw their debut in this decade.
What are the 1950s?
500
Draw the cyclized form of D-fructose?
Refer to page 1042 in the Smith Organic text book.
500
Most sugar anomers are in this configuration.
What is B-anomer?
500
Name this structure (E) - a ketose similar to glucose.
What is D-fructose?
500
DAILY DOUBLE
Name this structure (F) - a disaccharide formed by glucose and fructose.
What is sucrose?
500
In 2010, 1.47 billion pounds of this product was used in candy production.