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Fischer projection: Quick Facts

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Also Known As projection formula

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Diagram showing Fischer projections of D-glucose and L-glucose, with each molecule's carbon backbone, hydroxyl groups, and aldehyde group arranged to highlight their mirror-image configurations.
representations of molecular structure
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