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A level Biology- Alpha glucose molecules

The structure of a disaccharide when 2 alpha glucose molecules bond
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Not sure if this is what you're asking but 2 alpha glucose bond with a glycosidic bond to form the disaccaride Maltose it's a 1 to 4 glycosidic linkage, meaning the first carbon of the glucose ring binds to an oxygen which binds to the fourth carbon on the next glucose molecule.
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isadiya
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just google the structure
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Original post by Manjot Johal
The structure of a disaccharide when 2 alpha glucose molecules bond

alpha glucose + alpha glucose = maltose , they both have regular glucose joined together (so not turned upside down) . when they talk about 1-4 glycosidic bonding they mean when carbon number (on the first carbon) joins to carbon number 4 on the second alpha glucose . remember each carbon is counted on the glucose molecule.

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