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Which of the following is the open-chain structure of D-glucose?

A

B

C

D

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B
The great carbohydrate chemist Emil Fricher established the stercochemical configuration of the aldohexose `D -(+) -` glucose, the most abundant monosaccharide.
Fischer represented the structure or `D - (+) -` glucose with the cross formulation, which is now called a Fisher projection
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