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D sugar

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Organic Chemistry

Definition

D sugar represents a category of sugars that are part of the dextrorotatory family, which rotate plane-polarized light to the right. These sugars have their hydroxyl group (-OH) on the farthest chiral carbon positioned to the right when written in a Fischer projection.

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