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Epimere vs Epimer - What's the difference?

epimere | epimer |

As nouns the difference between epimere and epimer

is that epimere is epimer while epimer is (chemistry) any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.

epimere

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (biology) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so-called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, as in a segmented leaf.
    • (Webster 1913)

    epimer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chemistry) any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres

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