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- noun organic chemistry Any
diastereoisomer of asugar or derivative differing inconfiguration only at C-1 of analdose or C-2 of aketose .
Etymologies
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ano- + -mer
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Examples
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"No," Kenji replied, unable to suppress anomer laugh.
The Garden of Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1992
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Aronson NN Jr, Halloran BA, Alexyev MF, Amable L, Madura JD, et al. (2003) Family 18 chitinase-oligosaccharide substrate interaction: subsite preference and anomer selectivity of
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hai Li et al. 2010
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