Question

Question #e8042

Answer 1

D-Glucose is NOT L-glucose.

Explanation:

D-Glucose and L-glucose are non-superimposable mirror image isomers of each other.

You can see this in the two Fischer projections shown below.

You can recognize D-glucose in a Fischer projection because the highest-numbered chiral carbon (carbon 5) has the `"OH"` group on the right hand side of the vertical carbon chain.

L-Glucose has that `"OH"` group on the left, and every other chiral carbon has the `"OH"` on the side opposite to that of the corresponding carbon in D-glucose.