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A monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group
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aldohexose
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An aldohexose is a hexose with an aldehyde group on one end. The aldohexoses have four chiral centres for a total of 16 possible aldohexose stereoisomers (2). Of these, only three commonly occur in nature: D- glucose , D- galactose , and D- mannose . The ...
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n. (context organic chemistry English) Any hexose containing an aldehyde group.
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n. a monosaccharide sugar having six carbon atoms and an aldehyde group