Now, it turns out that about two thirds will exist in the beta animal form and one third will exist in the alpha animal form. So the question that I'd like to answer this question is why is it that the beta animer form of glucose predominates? What makes this molecule predominate over this molecule here? And the answer lies in examining the chair confirmation of these two molecules. So remember from organic chemistry that anytime we have a six membered ring, so a ring structure that contains six atoms, that ring structure will take on the chair confirmation because it's the chair confirmation that is the most stable type of arrangement of atoms. All these atoms in a chair confirmation are as far away from one another as possible.