Two stereoisomers of a given sugar that differ only in the configuration about the carbonyl carbon atom
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Two sugars that differ only in the configuration around one carbon atom are called epimers; D-glucose and D-mannose, which differ only in the stereochemistry at C-2, are epimers, as are D-glucose and D-galactose (which differ at C-4): In other words they are nonsuperimposable, nonmirror-image stereoisomers.
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