An X-ray crystallographic study has confirmed that the potassium bisulfite
adducts Of D-glucose and D-mannose have open-chain structures with R and S
configurations respectively at C-1. NMR studies have shown that each sugar
gives rise to two bisulfite compounds, and solution-state structures and co
nformations of these isomers have been deduced from analysis of H-1 NMR spe
ctra. C-13 NMR data for the four adducts are given. Furanose forms of the D
-glucose and D-mannose have been detected in the equilibrium solutions. (C)
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