JEE Main Chemistry question

[AIEEE 2008] α-D-(+)-glucose and β-D-(+)-glucose are

(A)Conformers
(B)Epimers
(C)AnomersCorrect
(D)Enantiomers

Answer: (C)

Solution

α-D-(+)-glucose and β-D-(+)-glucose are cyclic forms of D-glucose that differ only in configuration at the anomeric carbon C-1, which is the precise definition of anomers. They are not conformers (the difference is

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