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IIT-JEE 2011 · Paper 2, Chemistry question 8

The following carbohydrate is

Chair form of a pyranose with every OH and the CH₂OH equatorial and the anomeric OH equatorial: β-D-glucopyranose.
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Answer and worked solution

Official answer: B

Read the ring. A six-membered ring with one O (a pyranose), an exocyclic CHX2OH\ce{CH2OH} and an OH on C-1 next to the ring O. Opening the ring gives an aldehyde at C-1, so the sugar is an aldohexose (glucose).

Anomer. All substituents, including the anomeric OH, are equatorial, so it is β-D-glucopyranose, not α. It is not a furanose and not a ketose.

(B)