Departure of Anionic Oxygen Leaving Groups from Sugars

1 Departure of Anionic Oxygen Leaving Groups from Sugars 

Position Glucose series Galactose series Other series 

So that (7s is in the same sense-positive, electron-withdrawing-as conventional a constants. 

The fact that the additional methyl group does not alter the glucojgalacto ratio indicates that the faster rates of hydrolysis in the galacto series are not steric in origin. 

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