How do you draw a chair conformation from a fischer projection?

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Jan 13, 2018

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I will explain it on D-glucose.

Explanation:

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The most important thing to draw the correct conformation of a sugar, D-glucose, is to pay attention to the stereochemistry from C-2 to C-5, because any change in the configuration of these stereogenic centers changes the identity of the sugar D-glucose.

At first we need to change the hydroxyl group on C-5 in the proper orientation.
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To draw the chair conformation of D-glucose you need to know the orientations of the axial and equatorial bonds on carbon atoms of the chair conformation.
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Below you can see how to determine what goes up and what goes down on the ring.
http://www.chtf.stuba.sk/~szolcsanyi/education/files/Chemia%20heterocyklickych%20zlucenin/Prednaska%206/Odporucane%20studijne%20materialy/Drawing%20sugar%20structures.pdf

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The final result: a chair conformation of D- glucose with equatorial and axial bonds.