Sucrose formula

Carbohydrates may be divided into monosaccharides, disaccharides and polysaccharides. The monosaccharides under certain conditions react as polyhydroxy-aldehydes or polyhydroxy-ketones two important representatives are glucose CjHjjO (an aldose) and fructose (laevulose) CgHuO, (a ketose). Upon hydrolysis di- and polysaccharides 3deld ultimately monosaccharides. Common disaccharides are sucrose, lactose and maltose (all of molecular formula C,2H2. 0,), whilst starch, dextrin and cellulose, (CjHjoOj), in which n > 4, are typical polysaccharides. 

Fig. 1. Stmctural representations of sucrose (a) Haworth perspective formula, and (b) conformational stmcture of sucrose in soHd crystals. Adapted from...

The following process description is taken from U.S. Patent 2,987,449. An appropriate S. aureofaciens strain such as mutant S1308 (ATCC No. 12,748) is grown aerobically in a suitable inoculum medium. A typical medium used to grow the primary inoculum is prepared according to the following formula sucrose, 20.0 g corn steep liquor, 16.5 ml ammonium sulfate, 2.0 g calcium carbonate, 7.0 g and water to 1,000 ml. 

In dilute acidic solution, sucrose (Ci2H22Ou) decomposes to glucose and fructose, both with molecular formula C6Hi2Ofi. The following data are obtained for the decomposition of sucrose. 

Write a chemical equation, using molecular formulas, for the reaction of sucrose with water to form glucose and fructose. 

Glucose, a sugar simpler than sucrose, has a molecular weight of 180 and empirical formula CH20. What is its molecular formula ... 

Self-Test M.3A When 0.528 g of sucrose (a compound of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) is burned, 0.306 g of water and 0.815 g of carbon dioxide are formed. Deduce the empirical formula of sucrose. 

Polymeric formulas typically have low osmolality of 300 to 500 mOsm/kg. These formulas also usually supply essential vitamins and minerals in amounts similar to the Adequate Intakes or Recommended Dietary Allowances for these nutrients when the formula is delivered in amounts adequate to meet the macronutrient requirements of most patients. Many polymeric formulas are inexpensive relative to oligomeric formulas. Most polymeric formulas are lactose-free and gluten-free, as are most modern tube feeding products. Products designed to be used as oral supplements generally are polymeric and often have sucrose or other simple sugars added to improve taste. 

The carbohydrates are substances made by green plants from carbon dioxide that they extract from the air and from water absorbed from the soil. The term carbohydrate is derived from the chemical formulas of the compounds, which can be written so as to express their composition in terms of atoms of carbon combined with molecules of water the formula for sucrose (table sugar), for example, is C12H22011f but it can also be written as C12(H20)ll, indicating that the molecule consists of 11 molecules of water... 

The establishment of the structure of turanose furnishes a firm basis for an eventual determination of the structure of melezitose. One can start with the assurance that the trisaccharide is 8-[a-v-glucopyranosyVy D-fructose < > n-glucopyranose this formula requires three further specifications. The first of these is an allocation of a ring to the fructose unit, the second is a decision between the a- and /S-forms for this unit, and the third is a similar decision between these forms for the right-hand D-glucopyranose unit. Decision on these three matters can be made readily if sucrose should ever be found to result from a partial hydrolysis of melezitose, because sucrose is almost certainly f)-v-fructo-... 

The augmented formula of p. 30 for melezitose, S-[a-T)-glucopyrano-ayr -a-fructofuranose < > d-glucopyranose, lacks only the two pertinent a,j9 allocations. In the case of the D-glucopyranose unit there is evidence from enzyme studies, which seems conclusive, that it is of the a-D-type, as in sucrose. First, there is the evidence of a negative kind that the... 

Attention was first directed toward the dextrans about the middle of the last century as these slimes were at times a serious problem in the wine and beet sugar industries. In the latter, jelly-like masses blocked the filters and interfered with the refining processes by retarding crystallization. Dextran, at various times, was regarded as a protoplasmic constituent of the beet cell,22 a product of sucrose fermentation, and as cellulose produced by fermentation.22 The empirical formula, (CeHioOs)n, for dextran was obtained2422 at an early date (about 1875) on hydrolysis, the substance was found to yield only D-glucose.1422-24 A tribenzoate and a triacetate of dextran were prepared by Daumichen.24... 

Early reports on levan are obscured by incomplete descriptions of impure products.2 96 Greig-Smith found that Bacillus levaniformans(1) produced levan from sucrose96" in suitable nutrient solutions, but not from D-glucose, D-fructose, lactose or maltose.966 He therefore assumed that levan could only be formed from the nascent D-fructose and D-glucose resulting from the inversion of sucrose. Hydrolysis of levan yielded D-fructose only, and analysis of levan agreed with the empirical formula (C HiriOi) it was noted that levan was closely related to inulin but was not identical with it. 

The foregoing is a very condensed summary of some of the principal advances through which the formula for sucrose has been established. A thorough review of the subject has been published recently by I. Levi and C. B. Purves in Vol. IV of the Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry. 

Bioethanol can be produced from a large variety of carbohydrates with a general formula of (CHjO) . Chemical reaction is composed of enzymatic hydrolysis of sucrose followed by fermentation of simple sugars. Fermentation of sucrose is performed using commercial yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. First, invertase enzyme in the yeast catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose to convert it into glucose and fmctose. 

CASRN 510-15-6 molecular formula C16H14CI2O3 FW 325.21 Biological. Rhodotomla gracilis, a yeast isolated from an insecticide-treated soil, degraded chlorobenzilate in a basal medium supplemented by sucrose. Metabolites identified by this decarboxylation process were 4,4 -dichlorobenzilic acid, 4,4 -dichlorobenzophenone, and carbon dioxide (Miyazaki et al., 1969, 1970). 

Use the previous formula and the constant from Table 9-3 to calculate the temperature at which a solution of 50 grams of sucrose (C12H22O11) in 400 grams of water will freeze. The molecular weight of sucrose is... 

In the two previous examples, the sucrose and santonic acid existed in solution as molecules, instead of dissociating to ions. The latter case requires the total molality of all ionic species. Calculate the total ionic molality of a solution of 50.0 grams of aluminum bromide (AlBr3) in 700 grams of water. Because the gram formula weight of AlBt3 is... 

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