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What is the molecule H2C6H6O6?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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A molecule with the formula C6H12O6 is called a hexosebecause it is a simple sugar (monosaccharide) that contains six carbon atoms.

We most often refer to C6H12O6 as glucose. However, there are many isomers of glucose: an isomer is simply a different arrangement of atoms. The following sugars all have the molecular formula C6H12O6, but the carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms in each sugar are arranged differently:

- Allose

- Fructose

- Galactose

- Glucose

- Gulose

- Idose

- Mannose

- Psicose

- Pyranose

- Sorbose

- Tagatose

- Talose

There are other hexose sugars, most of which are not naturally-occurring but rather synthesized.

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