Learning outcomes - after studying this topic, you should be able to:

• use Fisher projections to represent the structures of D- and L-sugars
• convert between Fisher projections and Haworth representations
• identify the anomeric carbon atom in cyclic saccharides
• predict the products of oxidation and reduction of sugars
• predict the products of hydrolysis of disaccharides and polysaccharides

• Chapter 22 (in )

Biochemistry of carbohydrates Tags: carbohydrates | Haworth projections Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Cyclisation of glucose Description: Video showing formation of hemiacetal bond and the cyclisation of glucose Tags: carbohydrates | Haworth projections Contributed by Adam Bridgeman

Fischer to Haworth animation Description: Animation of the cyclisation of glucse Tags: carbohydrates | Haworth projections Contributed by Adam Bridgeman