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If two structures are epimers what does that mean?

 

[TeamGuo]

given a sugar molecule = epimer means that they are different stereochemically only at 1 C chiral center.

So you know that for sugars like d-glucose, C-2 epimer will be a different sugar, I think it is d-mannose, and C-3 epimer will be a different sugar, so on and so on.

 

[IDoWhatIWant]

Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think epimers are just diastereomers of each other.

 

[DDSguyLA]

epimers are the same exact thing as diastereomers except they are for sugars...

 

[doc3232]

Epimer is a type of diasteromer.
Just more specific.

 

[harrygt]

Epimers are diastereomers that differ only in one carbon's configuration.
Example:
compound one: C1 = R C2 = R C3 = S
Compound two C1 = R C2 = S C3 = S