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Which of the following compounds are known as threose and erythrose?
A. `C_(4)`sugars
B. `C_(3)`sugars
C. `C_(5)`sugars
D. `C_(6)`sugars

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The `C_(4)` sugars with the different chiral centres exist in four enantiomerc forms and as two racemic mixtures. These are known as threose and erythrose and have Fisher projections `I-IV`
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Erythrose exists in two enantiomeric forms `(I` and`II)` as does threose `(III` and `IV`). The compounds represented by `I` and `III` (or `IV`) are diastereoisomers. They are stereoismers which are not enantiomeric.

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