Question

What is anomers and mutarotation

Answer 1

Anomers are diastereoisomers of cyclic forms of sugars or similar molecules differing in the configuration at the anomeric carbon (C-1 atom of an aldose or the C-2 atom of a 2-ketose). The cyclic forms of carbohydrates can exist in two forms, α- and β- based on the position of the substituent at the anomeric center.
Mutarotation is the change in the optical rotation because of the change in the equilibrium between two anomers, when the corresponding stereocenters interconvert. Cyclic sugars show mutarotation as α and β anomeric forms interconvert.

Answer 2

Answer:

Anomers are the special kind of epimers where a pair of diastereomer differ only by change in configuration on about a carbon compound mainly C1 carbon

Mutarotation is the change in specific rotation of optically active compound from 112° to 52.5° in alpha D glucose and from 17.5° to 52.5° in beta D glucose to an equilibrium state that is 52.5°