which of the following pair is $C_{2}$ epimer:

D-Glucose , D- Maltose

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D- Glucose , D- Mannose

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D- Allose , D- Ribose

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D-Glucose , D- Arabinose

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Solution

The correct option is B D- Glucose , D- Mannose
D-Mannose suffers from D-glucose only at $2$ -carbon atom .
$\Rightarrow$ D-Mannose and D-glucose are $C_{2}$ -epimers.

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