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Talk:Absolute configuration (D/L nomenclature)
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somewhere in the lexicon we should explain that beta-D-glucose and alpha-L-iduronic acid have the same equatorial orientation of the glycosidic bond; same for beta-D-xylose and a-L-arabinose; there are many biologists that get confused by this. Bernie