If D- and L- glucose are enantiomers, are D- and L-fructose not enantiomers?

1 Answer
Dec 8, 2015

What are you talking about? They ARE enantiomers.

Here, this source says so:

"D- and L-glucose are enantiomers, nonsuperposable mirror-image stereoisomers. Similarly, D- and L-fructose are enantiomers."

If two sugars have every horizontal #"OH"# and #"H"# pair switched, they are enantiomers.

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