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levulose

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See also: lévulose

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Etymology

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Blend of laevus +‎ l +‎ -ose (Latin for "left" + connector "l" + sugar) (left sugar)

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levulose (plural levuloses)

  1. (biochemistry) D-fructose, the left-rotating stereoisomer of fructose.
    • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds[1], London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:
      The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

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This is not L-fructose, despite being named that way; it is D-fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research

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