Octose

View more Science videos

This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2009)

The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. (April 2009)

An octose is a monosaccharide with eight carbons.

See also

• Lincomycin

v · d · eTypes of carbohydrates General: Aldose · Ketose · Furanose · Pyranose Geometry Cyclohexane conformation · Anomer · Mutarotation Monosaccharides Dioses Aldodiose (Glycolaldehyde) Trioses Ketotriose (Dihydroxyacetone) · Aldotriose (Glyceraldehyde) Tetroses Ketotetrose (Erythrulose) · Aldotetroses (Erythrose, Threose) Pentoses Ketopentose (Ribulose, Xylulose) Aldopentose (Ribose, Arabinose, Xylose, Lyxose) Deoxy sugar (Deoxyribose) Hexoses Ketohexose (Psicose, Fructose, Sorbose, Tagatose) Aldohexose (Allose, Altrose, Glucose, Mannose, Gulose, Idose, Galactose, Talose) Deoxy sugar (Fucose, Fuculose, Rhamnose) Heptoses Ketoheptose (Sedoheptulose, Mannoheptulose) >7 Octose · Nonose (Neuraminic acid) Multiple Disaccharides Sucrose · Lactose · Maltose · Trehalose · Turanose · Cellobiose Trisaccharides Raffinose · Melezitose · Maltotriose Tetrasaccharides Acarbose · Stachyose Other oligosaccharides Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) · Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) · Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) Polysaccharides Glucose/Glucan: Glycogen · Starch (Amylose, Amylopectin) · Cellulose · Dextrin/Dextran · Beta-glucan (Zymosan, Lentinan, Sizofiran) · Maltodextrin Fructose/Fructan: Inulin · Levan beta 2→6 Mannose/Mannan Galactose/Galactan N-Acetylglucosamine: Chitin biochemical families: prot · nucl · carb (glpr, alco, glys) · lipd (fata/i, phld, strd, gllp, eico) · amac/i · ncbs/i · ttpy/i

This chemistry-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.v · d · e

This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)