- A
furanose is a
collective term for
carbohydrates that have a
chemical structure that
includes a five-membered ring
system consisting of four
carbon atoms...
-
formation due to
attack on the
aldehyde by the C4'
hydroxyl group to
produce a
furanose form or by the C5'
hydroxyl group to
produce a
pyranose form. In each case...
-
hydroxyl and the aldehyde, a
furanose is
formed instead. The
pyranose form is
thermodynamically more
stable than the
furanose form,
which can be seen by...
-
bridge between two
carbon atoms.
Rings with five and six
atoms are
called furanose and
pyranose forms, respectively, and
exist in
equilibrium with the straight-chain...
- forms, the ring
usually has five or six atoms.
These forms are
called furanoses and pyranoses, respectively—by
analogy with
furan and pyran, the simplest...
- group, a
methyl hydroxyl group, a
methoxy group or
another pyranose or
furanose group which are
typical single bond
substitutions but not
limited to these...
- a
furanose sugar is
depicted as a pentagon.
Usually an
oxygen is
placed at the
upper right corner in
pyranose and in the
upper center in a
furanose sugar...
- v t e
Types of
carbohydrates General Aldose Ketose Furanose Pyranose Geometry Anomer Cyclohexane conformation Epimer Mutarotation Monosaccharides Multiple...
- If the
cycle has four
carbon atoms (five in total), the form is
called furanose after the
compound tetrahydrofuran. The
conventional numbering of the carbons...
- five-position carbon. It can
exist in open
chain form or in
furanose form. The
furanose form is most
commonly referred to as
ribose 5-phosphoric acid...
