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Reactions of saccharides catalyzed by molybdate ions. XXIII. A contribution to the mechanism of the epimerization reaction

V. Bílik, L. Petruš, M. Mišíková, and V. Sutoris

Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 809 33 Bratislava

Abstract: In the presence of molybdic acid, anhydrogalactitol I undergoes conversion to its L-ido isomer which affords L-xylose on oxidative degrdn. Based on this model compd. representing the 1-deoxy analogs of aldopyranoses, the mechanism of epimerization of aldoses is discussed in terms of a simultaneous change of the configuration at carbon atoms C-2 and C-3.

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Chemical Papers 33 (1) 114–117 (1979)