Glucose

• You find the oxygen and count the carbon going in a clockwise direction, the OH is called a hydroxyl group and it is carbohydrate and a hexose, formula - C_6H_12O_6
• Glucose is in a ring structure and straight form in solution, there is an equilibrium between these two but in solution, the ring structure is predominant; six-membered ring structure
• Ring Structue

  A) H

  B) OH

  C) H

  D) OH

  E) OH

  F) H

  G) OH

  H) H

  I) H

  J) CH_2OH

  K) O