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Glucose is an Aldohexose

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Q: Is glucose and aldopentose or aldohexose?
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Glucose is an aldohexose what does this mean?

Glucose is an aldohexose means that Glucose is a carbohydrate where it's molecular structure has 6 sides.


When you add Fructose and fructose does it gives you glucose?

No. Fructose and glucose are two different, simple sugars or monosaccharides. Fructose is a ketohexose. Glucose is an aldohexose.


What ketohexose and aldohexose are present in melezitose?

β-D-fructose and α-D-glucose


What is an aldohexose?

An aldose sugar is a monosaccharide (a simple sugar) containing one aldehyde group per molecule and having a chemical formula of the form Cn(H2O)n(n>=3).


How are glucose and manose related?

Monnose can be defined as a sugar monmer of the aldohexose series of carbohydrates. Glucose can be defined as d-glucose, dextrose or grape sugar. Glucose and manose are related because they are both types of sugars.


How is a monosaccharide?

Monosaccharides are the simplest sugars that cannot be broken down further very easily. Glucose is an aldohexose, which means that it has an aldehyde head and a 6 carbon chain. A link where you can find an image of glucose is provided in the related link.


What is an altrose?

An altrose is an aldohexose epimeric with mannose.


What group contains the favorite molecule of the brain?

perhaps more specificity is needed. The favourite molecule of the brain I would say is glucose as it can only eat glucose and therefore craves it. However you may be asking about neurotransmitters which is not an area I am familiar with. Glucose is a Carbohydrate, more specificially it is a monosaccharide. It is also an aldohexose (6 carbon molecule with an aldehyde group).


Name a simple carbohydrate with 6 carbons?

A simple carbohydrate with 6 carbons is aldohexose or a six-carbon aldehyde. Aldohexose is a monosaccharide that has an aldehyde group on one end.


Manose how it is prepared?

Manose is a sugar monomer of the aldohexose series of the carbohydrates.


How many dehydration reactions occur in the conversion of a molecule of an aldopentose to furfural?

three


What carbon of an aldopentose determines whether the pentose has a D or L configuration?

4