(chemistry) Any diastereoisomer that has the opposite configuration at only one of the stereogenic centres.

plural of epimer

(chemistry) The process of forming an epimer by changing one asymmetric centre in a compound that has more than one

Of or pertaining to an epimer

(biochemistry) Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having more than one center of asymmetry.

plural of epimerase

plural of epimerization

(chemistry) capable of being converted into an epimer

(chemistry) Converted into an epimer

(chemistry) To convert, or be converted, into an epimer