In sugar chemistry, an anomer is a special type of epimer. It is a stereoisomer (diastereomer, more exactly) of a saccharide (in the cyclic form) that differs only in its configuration at the hemiacetal or hemiketal carbon, also called the anomeric carbon.

For example, α-D-glucopyranose and β-D-glucopyranose, the two cyclic forms of glucose, are anomers.

The term for interconversion between the two anomers is mutarotation.

See also

• Haworth projection

External link

• Chin. Chem. Soc., Vol. 46(3) 283 (1999) On the Assignment of Anomeric Configuration (pdf)

Organic chemistry

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