Aldehyde sugars

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• aldehyde — aldehydic, adj. /al deuh huyd /, n. Chem. any of a class of organic compounds containing the group CHO, which yields acids when oxidized and alcohols when reduced. [1840 50; < NL al(cohol) dehyd(rogenatum) dehydrogenated alcohol] * * * Any of a… …   Universalium

• Aldehyde — An aldehyde. Formaldehyde, the simplest aldehyde …   Wikipedia

• glyceric aldehyde — noun a sweet crystalline aldehyde formed by the breakdown of sugars • Syn: ↑glyceraldehyde • Hypernyms: ↑aldehyde * * * noun : glyceraldehyde …   Useful english dictionary

• metabolism — /meuh tab euh liz euhm/, n. 1. Biol., Physiol. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available. Cf. anabolism, catabolism …   Universalium

• Reducing sugar — Reducing form of glucose A reducing sugar is any sugar that either has an aldehyde group or is capable of forming one in solution through isomerisation. This functional group allows the sugar to act as a reducing agent, for example in the Tollens …   Wikipedia

• Kiliani-Fischer synthesis — The Kiliani Fischer synthesis is a method for synthesizing monosaccharides. It proceeds via synthesis and hydrolysis of a cyanohydrin, thus elongating the carbon chain of an aldose by one carbon atom while preserving stereochemistry on all the… …   Wikipedia

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• Benedict's reagent — (also called Benedict s solution or Benedict s test) is a chemical reagent named after an American chemist, Stanley Rossiter Benedict.cite journal author = Benedict, S. R. title = A Reagent For the Detection of Reducing Sugars journal = J. Biol.… …   Wikipedia

• Carbohydrate — Carbohydrates (from hydrates of carbon ) or saccharides (Greek σάκχαρον meaning sugar ) are the most abundant of the four major classes of biomolecules, which also include proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. They fill numerous roles in living… …   Wikipedia

• Aldaric acid — is a group of sugar acids characterised by the formula HOOC (CHOH)n COOH. Aldaric acids are usually synthesized by the oxidation of aldoses with nitric acid. In this reaction it is the open chain (polyhydroxyaldehyde) form of the sugar that… …   Wikipedia