Erythrose
Chemical compound
Erythrose is a tetrose saccharide with the chemical formula C4H8O4. It has one aldehyde group, and is thus part of the aldose family. The natural isomer is D-erythrose; it is a diastereomer of D-threose.
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Erythrose
Chemical compound
Erythrose is a tetrose saccharide with the chemical formula C4H8O4. It has one aldehyde group, and is thus part of the aldose family. The natural isomer is D-erythrose; it is a diastereomer of D-threose.
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Erythrose is a tetrose saccharide with the chemical formula C4H8O4. It has one aldehyde group, and is thus part of the aldose family. The natural isomer is D-erythrose; it is a diastereomer of D-threose. Erythrose was named after the sugar alcohol erythritol (Erythrit), from which it was first synthesized in 1887 by Emil Fischer and Julius Tafel. Erythrose 4-phosphate is an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin cycle. Oxidative bacteria can be made to use erythrose as its sole energy source. Although often inconsequential, erythrose in aqueous solution mainly exists as the hydrate owing to the following equilibrium: HOCH2CH(OH)CH(OH)CHO + H2O ⇌ HOCH2CH(OH)CH(OH)CH(OH)2
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