- 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...
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projection approximate the
shapes of the
actual molecules better for
furanoses—which are in
reality nearly planar—than for
pyranoses that
exist in solution...
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known examples include the
deduction of the
structures of
pyranoses and
furanoses. In his
encyclopedic work
Natural History (Latin:
Naturalis Historia)...
- 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...
- atom and
usually four
carbon atoms; the
cyclic compounds are then
called furanoses, for
having the same
rings as the
cyclic ether tetrahydrofuran. The ring...
- α-D-glucopyranose,
though there are also
traces of the
other forms including furanoses and open
chained form. The
observed rotation of the
sample is the weighted...
- types: the pyranoses,
which feature six-membered C 5O rings, and the
furanoses,
which feature five-membered C 4O
rings (with a
pendant CH 2OH group)...
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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...
-
cyclic forms, the ring
usually has 5 or 6 atoms.
These forms are
called furanoses and pyranoses, respectively—by
analogy with
furan and pyran, the simplest...
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Types of
carbohydrates General Aldose Ketose Furanose Pyranose Geometry Anomer Cyclohexane conformation Epimer Mutarotation Monosaccharides Multiple...
