Lecture 14 Carb Structure Flashcards
What is a constitutional isomer?
Two molecules with same atoms but different connectivity, they are tautomers
What are these
Ribose on left an aldose sugar
Ribulose on right a ketose sugar
They are tautomers
What are stereoisomers?
Have the same connectivity but different spatial orientations. Branched into configurational or conformational isomers
What are configurational isomers?
They have chiral carbons and branch into enantiomers or diasteromers
What are enantiomers?
Mirror images at all chiral centers
What form are most sugars in?
D
What are diasteromers?
They have multiple chiral centers and not all chiral carbons are mirror images.
What is an Anomer?
Type of diasteromer that differs only at the anomeric C. (the carbon that is next to the O in a Haworth projection) For example alpha vs beta positioning. Beta is up and Alpha is down
What are epimers?
Branch of diasteromer that differs at any other carbon except the anomeric. Same alpha or beta but something else is different.
When converting from Fisher to Haworth what side goes beta and alpha?
The left side of the fisher projection will go up so beta and the right side will be down so alpha position.
What are conformational isomers?
They have reversible rotation changes
D-glyceraldehyde, an aldose sugar
a constitutional isomer of D-Dihydroxyacetone
What type of isomer are these and what are they?
Constitutional isomer (tautomers)
top is D glyceraldehyde and bottom is D-dihydroxyacetone a ketose sugar
What is this?
D ribose, a pentose aldose sugar
Tautomer to D-Ribulose
What is this?
D-Deoxyribose, an aldose pentose sugar
differs from ribose at carbon two H instead of OH