How to pronounce“anomers”in English

Overall, in this episode we’ve learned that: Aldehydes can form hydrates in water, and formalin is a particularly important example The two anomers of the hemiacetal form of glucose are connected by a reversible reaction between aldehyde and alcohol groups

In the beta anomer, these groups end up on the same side, and in the alpha anomer, these groups are opposite.

The sugar world actually has lots of special vocabulary: the hemiacetal carbon of a sugar is called the anomeric carbon.