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I didn't realize it until today though because I always thought that they only differed in the penultimate carbon but D-Glucose and L-Glucose are actually enantiomers. For some reason TPR and EK only stress that when you look at the Glucuse molecule, just look at C5 and if the -OH is on the left, it's a L molecule and if it's on the right, it's D. I think that's very confusing because if everything else was the same, it would be a diastereomer, which is always what I thought they were, am I missing something here? Did anyone else just find this out as well?