JEE Main Chemistry question

Epimers are a pair of diastereoisomeric aldoses which differ only in configuration at position:

(A)
(B)Correct
(C)
(D)

Answer: (B)

Solution

In the specific pairing considered here (e.g. glucose and mannose), the two aldoses are epimers because they differ in configuration only at C2, while being identical at all other

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Question ID VK-151220