20. Carbohydrates
Reduction of Monosaccharides
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Determine which aldose reactant should be used to produce the following sugar alcohol.
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What is the common name of the sugar alcohol produced when D-galactose is reduced?
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Draw the Fischer projection for the reduction product of D-mannose, the C-2 epimer of glucose. What is the structure and common name of the sugar alcohol produced?
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Reduction of d-fructose with a reducing agent yields a mixture of d-sorbitol along with a second, isomeric product. What is the structure of the second product?
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Treatment of d-glucose with a reducing agent yields sorbitol, a substance used as a sugar substitute by people with diabetes. Draw the structure of sorbitol.
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Use the Fischer projection for d-gulose in problem 13.69 to answer each of the following: (13.3, 13.5)
a. Draw the Fischer projection and name the product formed by the reduction of d-gulose.
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ALLIED Health The sugar alcohol ribitol is a component of the vitamin riboflavin and the energy transfer molecule FAD. Ribitol is formed when the monosaccharide ribose undergoes reduction at carbon 1. Draw the structure of ribitol.
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d-Ribose
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