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The Haworth Projection

January 11, 2018 By James Ashenhurst 1 Comment

Let's introduce the Haworth Projection, a frequently encountered convention for depicting sugars. "What!?" you may ask.  Yet another drawing convention? At this late stage of the course? And isn't drawing glucose just like drawing cyclohexane, more or less? Didn't we learn how to draw … [Read more...]

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