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1. Which of the following carbohydrates does not belong to the family of naturally occurring sugars? 10 СН2ОН нс-он B) CHO но

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Naturally occuring sugars have D-configuration of the last chiral carbon, means last chiral C-OH bond remains in right hand direction in Fischer projection formula. Among the sugars given, the last one i.e. (D) has last chiral carbon-OH bond towards left. So, (D) is not natural.

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