levulose
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See also: lévulose
English
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[edit]Blend of laevus + l + -ose (Latin for "left" + connector "l" + sugar) (left sugar)
Noun
[edit]levulose (plural levuloses)
- (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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[edit]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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[edit]- dextrose (right sugar)