Mutarotation

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Spontaneous change in optical rotation due to equilibrium:

$$\alpha\mathrm{-D-glucose} \rightleftharpoons \mathrm{open chain} \rightleftharpoons \beta\mathrm{-D-glucose}$$

Exhibited by reducing sugars with anomeric carbon.

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