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Tweet In biochemistry, a symbol used as a prefix to indicate the spatial configuration of certain organic compounds with asymmetric carbon atoms. It is used if an organic compound has a configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom analogous to that of L-glyceraldehyde (the arbitrarily chosen standard), in which the hydroxy (OH) functional group is on the left side of the asymmetric carbon atom in a Fischer projection formula: an L-amino acid. [From L(EVOROTATORY).] |
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Tweet The symbol for levorotatory. |
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