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Differences Between Alpha & Beta Glucose

Published Aug,14 2017 | By John Brennan

Glucose is one of the "simple sugars" -- an ironic name, because the chemistry of these compounds is rather complex. The naming system for sugars reflects this complexity. Chemists use prefixes like alpha and beta to denote different versions of glucose and other sugar molecules.