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Hi, what is considered a lower number carbon or higher number carbon? Is the lower number carbon away from alpha carbon? such as 1 is higher nubmer carbon and 6 is lower number carbon?
For example, in a cyclic sugar formation in which the OH group attack the carbonyl carbon, is the OH attached to a higher number carbon or lower number carbon? I always thought the bigger the number the higher the carbon number such as the OH attaches to the higher number carbon but Kaplan says the opposite. Can anyone explain?
For example, in a cyclic sugar formation in which the OH group attack the carbonyl carbon, is the OH attached to a higher number carbon or lower number carbon? I always thought the bigger the number the higher the carbon number such as the OH attaches to the higher number carbon but Kaplan says the opposite. Can anyone explain?