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What is Branching of the Chain of the D-Glucose Molecule

Chapter 6
Attractors and Higher Dimensions in Population and Molecular Biology: Emerging Research and Opportunities
The formation of branches in a chain of carbon atoms in the molecule of a – D -glucose. Such branches in a chain of the carbon atoms of the molecule ß – D -glucose are impossible. This follows from the representation of glucose molecules in the form of a polytope of higher dimension.
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Functional Dimensions of Biomolecules
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9651-6.ch006
Abstract
New structures of biomolecules have been constructed: carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids. It is shown that glucose molecules and ribose molecules have dimensions of 15 and 12, respectively. The enantiomorphic forms of biomolecules in space of higher dimension make it possible to explain the experimentally observed facts of branching of chains of biomolecules in one of the enantiomorphic forms and the absence of chain branching in another enantiomorphic form. The enantiomorphic forms of the tartaric acid molecule in a space of higher dimension reveal the cause of the reversal in different directions of the polarization plane of light in two opposite forms.
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