CARBOHYDRATES Flashcards
Sugar refers to a family of molecules called?
Saccharides
One sugar molecule.
Monosaccharides
Two sugar molecules.
Disaccharides
3-9 sugar molecules
Oligosaccharides
10 or more sugar molecules
Polysaccharides
What isomers in which the atoms have different connectivity?
Constitutional Isomers
What isomers is with different carbon and hydrogen atom arrangements.
Skeletal Isomers
What isomers differs in the location of the functional group
Positional Isomers
What isomers contains different functional group?
Functional Group Isomers
What isomers is with atoms of the same connectivity that differ only in the orientation of the atoms in space?
Stereoisomers
What stereoisomers that are nonsuperimposable mirror images of each other?
Enantiomers
What stereoisomers that are not mirror images of each other?
Diastereoisomers
What stereoisomers that results from restricted rotation about chemical bonds?
Cis-Trans
What stereoisomers that results from a mirror image realationship at one (or more) chiral centers and the same configuration?
Most other Diastereomers
What do you call the carbon atoms that are attached to four different substituents, that are placed at the corners of a tetrahedron.
Chiral Carbon
