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Clinical pharmacy PharmD program Third level Phytochemistry-1 (PG-504)

Educational Goals:

 Be able to classify monosaccharides as either aldoses or ketoses.

 Be able to classify monosaccharides by the number of carbons they contain.

 Given a Fischer projection of a monosaccharide, be able to identify it as a

D-sugar or L-sugar.

 determine the number of stereoisomers that are possible.

 Given a Fischer projection of a monosaccharide, and be able to identify

chiral form
 Define the term anomer and explain the difference between α and β

anomers.
 Understand and describe mutarotation.

 Be able to draw Haworth structures of sugars and Identify the anomeric
carbon.

 Be able to understands the different reactions of Sugars

 Be able to carry out chemical test for sugars

Monosaccharides

➢ They include:

I. Pentoses II. Hexsoses
III. Derivatives of Monosaccharides

A. Sugar alcohol
B. Sugar acid

C. Phosphoric acid ester of monosaccharide. E.g: G-6-P
D. The deoxysugars (as deoxyribose in DNA).

E. Aminosugar. eg: Glucosamine
F. Thio-Sugar

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