D-Sucrose Is Common Table Sugar

question 13

Essay

d-Sucrose is common table sugar.Its enantiomer, l-sucrose, has been investigated as a
nonnutritive sweetener.Explain why l-sucrose would function as a sweetener, but would not
generate the same number of dietician's calories as the d-enantiomer.

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