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Aldohexose Configurations

Draw each D-aldohexose in all three common configurational representations. Follow the numbered steps below.

1 Pick an aldohexose
2 Pick a format to start from, then click Show This Format
This fills one canvas with the answer as your starting point. You'll draw the other two yourself in Step 3.
Fischer   ZigZag   Haworth
3 Draw the other two representations
Modify the two canvases you did not fill in Step 2 so all three show the same sugar. Leave the anomeric site in the Haworth display unspecified.
Fischer Projection
Add four hydroxyl groups
ZigZag Formula
Use Wedge bonds to show configuration
Haworth Pyranose Formula
Use Wedge bonds to show configuration
4 Check your answer

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