1. to undergo or cause to undergo epimerization, a chemical process in which a compound is converted into its epimer (a stereoisomer differing in configuration at one stereogenic center)
Usage: chemistry; technical; British spelling (American: epimerizes)

Examples

• The glucose solution epimerises slowly at elevated temperatures.
• Under basic conditions, the compound epimerises to form its C-4 epimer.
• Heating the sugar causes it to epimerises into a mixture of isomers.
• The enzyme catalyzes the reaction that epimerises the substrate.