Aldo hexoses are six carbon sugars with four chirality centres and an aldehyde carbonyle group. There are 16 possible stereo isomeric aldo hexoses. D-glucose and D-manmose are X of each other X is
A) epimer
B) anomer
C) enantiomer
D) diasteromer
Correct Answer:
A
Solution :
D-manmose and D-glucose differ at configuration at C-2 only hence they are epimer.