Pyranoses , Furanoses, Straight-Chain Glucose, And Ring-Chain Tautomerism Sugars such as glucose exist in equilibrium between their open-chain form and various cyclic forms where an
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Man, is there ever a lot of sugar nomenclature to know! This post aims to provide single place giving you the definitions of terms like
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Finally, Some Reactions Of Sugars: Glycosylation And Protection In this post we introduce some simple reactions of sugars, especially glycosylation and protection: Formation of “glycosides”
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Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis and the Ruff Degradation The Kiliani-Fischer Synthesis is a method for extending a carbohydrate chain by a single carbon. The Ruff Degradation is
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