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Offline Fida

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Formula of glucose
« on: August 26, 2016, 12:56:48 AM »
The CH2OH branch in glucose,how to expand it?
Is it
    H
     |
H-C-OH
     |
   (Rest of glucose ring)
 

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Re: Formula of glucose
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2016, 01:01:22 AM »
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Re: Formula of glucose
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2016, 01:27:11 AM »
I found the asnwer in the animation but it was hard too fast to see what I am looking it

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Re: Formula of glucose
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2016, 05:12:26 AM »
In the hundreds of images online, someone,sometime has expanded the CH2OH for the glucose molecule.  Also, by the laws of organic chemistry, those atoms always "expand" the same way, regardless of the rest of the molecule.  For example, C-H-H-H=O doesn't exist,so that's one expansion you can't get.  Can you draw some others you think you might get?
Hey, I'm not judging.  I just like to shoot straight.  I'm a man of science.

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Re: Formula of glucose
« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2016, 12:19:55 PM »
The CH2OH branch in glucose,how to expand it?
Is it
    H
     |
H-C-OH
     |
   (Rest of glucose ring)
 

  It is correct ...remember H can never be bonded with two atoms .

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Re: Formula of glucose
« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2016, 12:29:10 PM »
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Re: Formula of glucose
« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2016, 12:35:29 PM »
 :)
Very true ...thanks for the advise

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