Assertion: aldohexose's group | /r/IsA | l sugars
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text: All sugars that have the hydroxyl group on the highest-numbered chiral carbon atom (C5 in the case of d-glucose) positioned on the right-hand side (using this projection and convention for the chain conformation) are termed D sugars, and all with the highest-numbered chiral atom having its hydroxyl group on the left are classified as L sugars.