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Aldohexoses are six carbon sugars with four chirality centres and an aldehyde carbonyle group. There are 16 possible stereoisomerc aldohexoses. D-glucose and D-manmose are X of each other X is : (a) epimer (b) anomer (c) enantiomer (d) diasteromer

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Correct Option (a) epimer 

Explanation :

D-mannose and D-glucose differ at configuration at C–2 only hence they are epimer.



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