Isomaltose Fischer

The diaacebaride was named isomaltose by Fischer.4 Later studies showed4 that the disaccharide was more likely to have been gentiobiose, not isomaltose. 

Between 1884 and 1902 Emil Fischer determined the structures of all monosaccharides from trioses through nonoses and those of the most important disaccharides, among them sucrose, maltose, isomaltose, and lactose. Fischer also explained the structural basis of their optical activity, and he established the modern nomenclature of sugars, for example, by substituting glucose and fructose for dextrose and levulose ... 

Synthesis. The first syntheses that probably led to isomaltose as one of the end-products were carried out by condensing D-glucose in the presence of acids (55). E. Fischer coined the term isomaltose for the disaccharide he... 

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