Aldose hexose

Add (pick) saccharide residues from the list of aldoses (hexoses in al-dopyranose form, pentoses in aldofuranose form, and tetraoses in open-chain form), ketoses (hexoses in ketofuranose form, pentoses and tetraose in open-chain form), derivatives (glucosamine, galactosamine, N-acetylnuraminic acid, N-acetyl muramic acid, inositol, 2-deoxyribose, rhamnose, fucose, and apiose), and blocking groups (H, NH2, =0, COO—, methyl, lactyl, O-methyl, iV-methyl, O-acetyl, iV-acetyl, phosphoric acid, sulfate, iV-sulfonic acid) to build polysaccharides. 

By way of illustration, refer to Figure 24-1. All the aldoses in each horizontal row are diasteromers of one another. The Kiliani-Fischer converts an aldose in one row into the two aldoses immediately below it. No two aldoses in one row (say. the pentoses) give the same aldose (hexose) in the next. 

The simple sugars or monosaccharides are polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones, and belong to Solubility Group II. They are termed tetroses, pentoses, hexoses. etc. according to the number of carbon atoms in the long chain constituting the molecule, and aldoses or ketoses if they are aldehydes or ketones. Most of the monosaccharides that occur in nature are pentoses and hexoses. 

Both aldoses and ketoses reduce Fehling s solution (for details, see under 4). This fact may appear surprising when it is remembered that Fehling s solution is one of the reagents for distinguishing between aldehydes and ketones (see 4). The explanation lies in the fact that a-hydroxyketones are much more readily oxidised than simple ketones, perhaps because the hydroxy ketone allows its isomerisation, in the presence of alkali, into an aldehyde. For example, fructose, a keto-hexose, might Isomerlse thus ... 

In the presence of lime water more complex reactions occur, leading to the formation of aldoses and hexoses (iv). This particular reaction is of interest to the biochemist as it is now generally held that optically active plant carbohydrates are obtained from carbon dioxide and water via formaldehyde. 

In connection with the Webb and Levy test, it should be mentioned that this test can also be applied to the estimation of all 2-deoxy aldoses, including those containing a terminal deoxy group, provided they have at least five carbon atoms in a straight chain 2-deoxy tetroses do not react (62). It has also been used for the estimation of 3-deoxy and 3, 6-di-deoxy hexoses, after their conversion to the corresponding 2-deoxy pentoses by removal of carbon 1 with periodate (24,25). 

Note 2. Since all aldoses up to the hexoses have trivial names that are preferred, the systematic names apply only to the higher aldoses. However, the configurational prefixes are also used to name ketoses (see below) and other monosaccharides. 

Auf 3-O-Methyl- oder 3-O-Glykosyl-hexosen ist dieses Schema direkt anwendbar, und zwar ist es gleichgiiltig, ob die Hexose eine Aldose VI oder eine Ketose VII ist. Denn beide bilden das gleiche Anion VIII. Abspaltung der Glykose bzw. von Methylalkohol und Umlagerung (analog II- V) liefert Metasaccharinsaure IX. 

II. Reaction of Aldoses with Dicarbonyl Compounds 1. Hexoses and Heptoses... 

Figure 4.17 The trioses D-glyceraldehyde (aldose) and dihydroxyacetone (ketose), the pentose D-ribose, the hexoses D-galactose and D-glucose (aldoses) and the ketohexose D-fructose in their open chain forms. The configuration of the asymmetrical hydroxyl group on the carbon, the furthest away from the aldehyde or ketone group, determines the assignment of D- or L-configuration.

Figure 9.3 Stereoisomers of the D-aldoses. D-Ribose and D-arabinose differ only in their configuration about a single carbon atom (carbon 2) and are examples of epimers. Diastereoisomers are stereoisomers which are not enantiomers of each other but are chemically distinct forms, the eight D-hexoses being examples. Some, however, are also epimers of each other, for example D-allose and D-altrose. The number of aldoses in the L series is equal to that of the d series and each compound is an enantiomer of one in the other series.

There are three possible classes of sugar acids which may be produced by the oxidation of monosaccharides (Figure 9.11). The aldonic acids are produced from aldoses when the aldehyde group at carbon 1 is oxidised to a carboxylic acid. If, however, the aldehyde group remains intact and only a primary alcohol group (usually at carbon 6 in the case of hexoses) is oxidised then a uronic acid is formed. Both aldonic and uronic acids occur in nature as intermediates in... 

The initiating reaction between aldoses and amines, or amino acids, appears to involve a reversible formation of an N-substituted aldosyl-amine (75) see Scheme 14. Without an acidic catalyst, hexoses form the aldosylamine condensation-product in 80-90% yield. An acidic catalyst raises the reaction rate and yet, too much acid rapidly promotes the formation of 1-amino-l-deoxy-2-ketoses. Amino acids act in an autocat-alytic manner, and the condensation proceeds even in the absence of additional acid. A considerable number of glycosylamines have been prepared by heating the saccharides and an amine in anhydrous ethanol in the presence of an acidic catalyst. N.m.r. spectroscopy has been used to show that primary amines condense with D-ribose to give D-ribopyrano-sylamines. ... 

Only the most important of the large number of naturally occurring monosaccharides are mentioned here. They are classified according to the number of C atoms (into pentoses, hexoses, etc.) and according to the chemical nature of the carbonyl function into aldoses and ketoses. 

Aldose sugars make up a large part of the carbohydrate family, but the ones that are really worth knowing are part of the D-family. The simplest of these D-sugars is the triose glyceraldehyde. From there you have 2 tetroses, 4 pentoses, and 8 hexoses. Each of these aldose sugars has an enantiomer. 

Trivial names are common in carbohydrate nomenclature. Fifteen of them form the basis of the systematic nomenclature. They are assigned to the simple aldoses (polyhydroxyaldehydes), from triose to hexoses. 

The ketoses D-tagatose 6 (43% relative activity) and D-ribulose 28 (24% relative activity) were identified as new acceptor substrates they are not accepted by recombinant SuSyl from yeast. However the acceptance for D-xylulose 5 is lost. The most significant changes were observed for the aldoses tested L-arabinose 14, D-xylose 12, and D-lyxose 11 are better substrates than D-fructose, with relative activities of 490%, 300%, and 151%, respectively. In the hexose series L-glucose 29 and L-rhamnose 30 were identified as new acceptor substrates, whereas the acceptance for D-and L-mannose, 16 and 21, was improved (Fig. 2.2.6.5) (Sauerzapfe and Elling, unpublished results). 

Monosaccharides with four, five, six, and seven carbon atoms in their backbones are called, respectively, tetroses, pentoses, hexoses, and heptoses. There are aldoses and ketoses of each of these chain lengths ... 

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