1. Work the 8 problems assigned.

2. Work the following problems:

Refer to the following structure in answering the questions

 1.) What is the monosaccharide unit on the upper right?

 2.) What is the monosaccharide unit on the lower left?     

3.) Describe the linkage between the rings. 

4.) What is the number of carbons in this disaccharide?

 5.) Is this a reducing sugar?

6.   a)   Give the name of this monosaccharide. 

      b.)  Draw an epimer of this molecule. 

      c.) Is the molecule in “a.” a pentose or a hexose?

      d.)  Draw an enantiomer of the molecule in “a.” 

      e.)  How many stereoisomers of the molecule in “a.” are possible?

Now, check your answers here.