Carbohydrate transformations glucose

One important application is in the field of carbohydrate transformations, the catalytic oxidation of D-glucose to D-gluconic acid represents an economically competitive route with respect to biochemical oxidation [4], This new process is the result of extensive studies on the selective Cl-hydroxyl group oxidation in the presence of O2 using a Pt or Pd catalyst modified with cocatalysts [5]. 

It must be evident to the reader that the experimental findings, on which support for the conversion of fatty acids to D-glucose in the animal organism must necessarily be based, are subjects of violent controversy. On the other hand, no one questions that the plant possesses the power to transform fatty acids to carbohydrate in the course of its usual metabolism. One naturally has reason to inquire why a reaction of such fundamental importance should be confined exclusively to the plant kingdom. 

Heterogeneous catalysts, particularly zeolites, have been found suitable for performing transformations of biomass carbohydrates for the production of fine and specialty chemicals.123 From these catalytic routes, the hydrolysis of abundant biomass saccharides, such as cellulose or sucrose, is of particular interest. The latter disaccharide constitutes one of the main renewable raw materials employed for the production of biobased products, notably food additives and pharmaceuticals.124 Hydrolysis of sucrose leads to a 1 1 mixture of glucose and fructose, termed invert sugar and, depending on the reaction conditions, the subsequent formation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) as a by-product resulting from dehydration of fructose. HMF is a versatile intermediate used in industry, and can be derivatized to yield a number of polymerizable furanoid monomers. In particular, HMF has been used in the manufacture of special phenolic resins.125... 

Systematic substitutive nomenclature may be used to name all organic molecules. However, those that are of animal or vegetable origin have often received trivial names, such as cholesterol, oxytocin and glucose. Biochemical nomenclature is based upon such trivial names, which are either substitutively modified in accordance with the principles, rules and conventions described in Chapter 4, Section 4.5 (p. 70), or transformed and simplified into names of stereoparent hydrides, i.e. parent hydrides of a specific stereochemistry. These names are then modified by the rules of substitutive nomenclature. Three classes of compound will be discussed here to illustrate the basic approach carbohydrates amino acids and peptides and lipids. For details, see Biochemical Nomenclature and Related Documents, 2nd Edition, Portland Press, London (1992). 

B. Bernet and A. Vasella, Carbocyclic compounds from carbohydrates. 1. Transformations in the glucose series, Helv. Chim. Acta, 62 (1979) 1990-2016. 

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