Anhydro compounds ring size

The compounds usually known as monosaccharide anhydrides or glycose anhydrides (earlier glycosans ), formation of which involves the anomeric hydroxy group, are named by the same procedure. In these cases the order of preference of ring size designators is pyranose > furanose > septanose. However, three- or four-membered rings should normally be cited as anhydro if there is a choice. 

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