Ch25: Carbohydrates

Common Carbohydrates

• There is are a lot of carbohydrates, so there is little merit in trying to memorise them all.
• It is much more useful to know the general patterns of how they will behave and react etc.
• However, there are a few common carbohydrates whose structures you should probably know...

(Note that there are several ways in which the cyclic structures can be depicted)

Glyceraldehyde	C3H6O3
Ribose	C5H10O5
Fructose	C6H12O6
Glucose	C6H12O6
Galactose	C6H12O6
Lactose	C12H22O11
Maltose	C12H22O11
Sucrose	C12H22O11

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© Dr. Ian Hunt, Department of Chemistry