Talk:Monosaccharide nomenclature

Anomeric and stereogenic center
I wonder if there is a typo in the definition of alpha and beta being based on the similarity or opposite configurations at the anomeric center and the most distant stereogenic center. My software (and a manual check) shows that the C1 for alpha glucose has the S configuration and C5 has the opposite R configuration. Also, it would be helpful to label the drawings with both the configuration (R or S) and the atom number. Al.French@ars.usda.gov 199.133.191.32 (talk) 18:27, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No, its not a typo. I've updated the paragraph to be more clear; but you need to draw the sugar as a Fischer projection to determine this (see the IUPAC link to 2-Carb6.2, it has some diagrams). You can't really name anomers by R/S; they're two different conventions.--Glycoform (talk) 01:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
 * But what we have here is not the IUPAC's definition ---which as @Glycoform mentions, requires one to draw and analyze the Fischer diagram---, but the definition from "Essentials of Glycobiology", 4th edition.
 * And that definition is not consistent with the depicted molecule: that diagram shows alpha-D-glucopyranose, where C1 has S configuration, C5 has R configuration (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose#/media/File:ALPHA-D-Glucopyranose_V.1.png), but according to the definition here it should be beta-D-glucopyranose, since their configurations are different.
 * I think there's a mistake on that book, and we are replicating the mistake here. Jerojasro (talk) 18:18, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Merge to Monosaccharide
The latter article describes only the naming system of simple sugars, for which the section already exists. I propose that content from the latter be copyedited thoroughly, then moved to the above section to avoid duplication of content. &mdash; CrafterNova [ TALK ]  [ CONT ] 15:44, 1 July 2022 (UTC)