Can someone pls explain figure 12.13b from pg 185 of the heinemann textbook?
In the glycosidic linkage, where did the HOCH2 come from? I understand that there is a water molecule being released so that should just leave CH2 bonding with H shouldn't it? And oxygen for the glycosidic bond.
Hope you can make some sense of what I wrote here
I think the textbook got some mistakes with that fructose structure, as far as Im aware, isn't the OH supposed to be branching from the same carbon with an CH2OH ? thats why there an CH2OH in the next photo.
I think I figure out the problem here, there is a mistake in textbook, according to my 2010 version textbook, it looks exactly like your photo, however, according to another version of the textbook, it's CH2OH.
Hope this helps!