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The slow change in optical rotation of a freshly dissolved glucose anomer is called what?
ARacemisation
BInversion
CEpimerisation
DMutarotation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Mutarotation
Interconversion of the alpha and beta cyclic forms through the open chain changes the rotation, and this is called mutarotation.
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