Sugar in solution

Balling. Balling is a measure of the sugar concentration in a grain mash, expressed in degrees. It approximates percent by weight of the sugar in solution. 

Appreciable amounts of organic salts dissolve during the extraction of the sugar and interfere seriously with the crystallization of the latter. Most of the salts are precipitated by addition of 95 per cent ethyl alcohol, leaving the sugar in solution. 

One of the more difficult problems encountered in obtaining a valid assay of formic acid is that of formate ester formation. The formate is derived from the cyclic, hemi-acetal structure which is an equilibrium form of many free sugars in solution. For example, the oxidation of one of the cyclic forms of D-glucose can readily be seen to give a formate ester (as well as a C-formyl group) on the atom originally denoted as C5. It... 

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Although most of these forms of sugars have never been isolated, they can be detected in the n.m.r. spectra of the sugars, and their proportion in the equilibrium mixture can be measured. Before the advent of n.m.r. spectroscopy, only a rudimentary knowledge of the composition of sugars in solution was available, but, since 1961, an extensive collection of data has been built up, mainly by the use of n.m.r. spectroscopy. These data are the subject matter of this article. The composition of sugars in solution was reviewed3 in 1969, but since then, much new information has been accumulated. 

Knowledge of the composition of sugars in solution is fundamental to carbohydrate chemistry. The physical and chemical properties of the sugars in solution depend on the proportions of their various forms and their biological properties may also show such dependence. Enzymes that utilize these sugars as substrates may not be able to use each of the forms. Where only a single form is utilized, the other forms may either be converted into the reactive form or may function as inhibitors. The latter is especially important if the reactive form is present in very low proportion at equilibrium. It is possible that the substrate form is utilized faster than it is generated from the other forms the observed rate of the reaction is then that of the tautomeric interconversion.4... 

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