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The structure below is a pentose sugar and does not have stereochemistry specified.

Reduction of the aldehyde functional group results in the structure below. How many different stereoisomers exist for this structure?

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In this task we have to show all possible stereoisomers if CHO is reduced to CH2_2OH.

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