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The 14 pages that link to Fischer projection, each with the reason it gives.
GlucoseRelated: It provides a compact way to represent glucose’s open-chain stereochemistry.
AldoseRelated: Fischer projections make aldose configurations comparable along their carbon chains.
Emil FischerBroader topic: He introduced this notation to represent the configurations of sugars.
GalactoseRelated: Fischer projections show the specific arrangement of galactose’s hydroxyl groups.
ErythroseRelated: Its conventional drawings make erythrose’s configurations easy to compare.
ThreoseRelated: This notation makes threose’s configurations easy to compare with other sugars.