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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Video transcript

Welcome back everyone. To another video petal is a naturally occurring seven carbon sugar alcohol mountain plants, red algae, fungi, mosses and lichens. Pomey is formed when the nano hep tose undergoes reduction at carbon one. Based on this information through the structure of polymetal. So in this problem, we are given the structure of the nano hep tose. And according to the problem, we are performing a reduction reaction at carbon one. And as we can see, carbon number one contains an aldehyde functional group. So we simply want to reduce a carbon compound, which means that this aldehyde is going to become a primary alcohol because whenever we are reducing an alcohol, what I'm sorry, whenever we are reducing an aldehyde, it becomes an alcohol. And essentially what we want to do is simply redraw the original official projection, we simply want to add all of the original functional groups. So we begin with S 20 three hydrogens and three hydroxy groups followed by two more hydrogens and two hydroxy groups. And we simply want to replace the aldehyde with a primary alcohol. So if we think about the aldehyde, we have cho and whenever we are performing a reduction reaction, one hydrogen bonds to oxygen and one hydrogen bonds to carbon within carbo. So we overall, we get C H2O H so we can use C H2O H to depict the structure of pole meal. And that would be our final answer to this problem. Thank you for watching.