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Tautomerism

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A pair of diastereomers that differ only in the configuration about a single carbon atom are called

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tautomers

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epimers

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conformers

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enantiomers

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Solution

The correct option is B epimers
Epimers are distereomers that differ at one of several asymmetric carbon atoms.

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