levoglucose
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
levo- + glucose (left-rotating sugar) (left sugar)
Noun[edit]
levoglucose (uncountable)
- (archaic) levulose (D-fructose), the left-rotating form of fructose
Usage notes[edit]
This is not L-glucose form of glucose despite being named that way, it is the D-fructose form of fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research.
See also[edit]
- dextroglucose (dextrose, D-glucose form of glucose) (right sugar)