Carbohydrate chemistry II
Structure and Isomerism
Dr. Vijay Marakala, MD.
Assistant professor BIOCHEMISTRY SIMS & RC
Structure of monosaccharide
Fisher projection• The straight
chain structural formula
Haworth projection• Cyclic formula
or ring structure
X-ray diffraction analysis• Boat and chair
form
Straight chain
Ring structure
Chair form
Isomerism
• The compounds possessing identical molecular formula but different structures are called isomers.
Various types of isomerism1. Structural isomerism2. Stereoisomerism
Structural isomerism
• Same molecular formulae but differ from each other by having different structures.
Stereoisomerism
• Same molecular formula and same structure but they differ in configuration.
• That is arrangement of their atoms in space.
• Presence of asymmetric carbon atoms allow the formation of stereoisomerism
Stereoisomerism
• The important types of stereoisomerism associated with glucose are
D and L isomerism
Optical isomerism
Epimerism
α and βanomerism
D and L isomerism
Optical isomerism
• Optical activity is the capacity of a substance to rotate the plane polarized light passing through it.
Clockwise direction• Dextrorotatory(d) or (+)
Counterclockwise direction• Levorotatory(l)or (-)
Optical isomerism
Chiral compounds rotate polarized light clockwise or counter clockwise through certain angle
Epimerism
• Epimerism is the stereoisomerism if two monosaccharides differ from each other in their configuration around a single specific carbon(other than anomeric) atom.
Epimerism
Anomerism
• These are isomers obtained from the change of position of hydroxyl group attached to the anomeric carbon e.g. and glucose are 2 anomers.
• Also and fructose are 2 anomers.
Anomerism
• Mutarotaion is defined as the change in the specific optical rotation by the interconversion of α and β forms of D glucose to an equilibrium mixture
Mutarotaion
Structure of oligosaccharides
• Disaccharides
Disaccharides
Reducing
MaltoseLactose
Isomaltose
Nonreducing
Sucrose
DISACCHARIDES• These are glycosides formed by the condensation of 2
simple sugars.
• If the glycosidic linkage involves the carbonyl groups of both sugars (as in sucrose) the resulting disaccharide is non-reducing.
• On the other hand, if the glycosidic linkage involves the carbonyl group of only one of the 2 sugars (as in maltose and lactose) the resulting disaccharide is reducing.
POLYSACCHARIDES
• These are formed by the condensation of n molecules of monosaccharides with the removal of n-1 molecules of water. Since condensation involves the carbonyl groups of the sugars, leaving only one free carbonyl group at the end of a big molecule, polysaccharides are non-reducing.
• They are of 2 types:1. Homopolysaccharides (e.g. Starch, Glycogen, cellulose).
2. Heteropolysaccharides (e.g. glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins)
- 1,4 linkage between two glucose units
-1,6 linkage between two glucose units
The ability to digest cellulose is found only in microorganisms that contain the enzyme
Cellulase.
Certain animal species (e.g. Cow) utilize such organisms in their digestive tracts to digest cellulose
Aldehyde groupH-C=O
Monosaccharides
Enantiomers
if they are
Mirror images of each other
can link to form
Disaccharidese.g.,
sucrose = glucose + fructoseLactose = galactose + glucoseMaltose = glucose + glucose
Oligosaccharides Polysaccharides
can be
Homo-e.g.,
Starch, glycogen,cellulose
Hetero-e.g.,
GAGs
Epimers
Differ in configuration around one specific carbon atom
Isomers
if they contain
Same chemical formula
Ketoses
Keto groupC=O
Can be classified as
if theyif they containif they contain
Aldoses