Short and Sweet: D‐Glucose to L‐Glucose and L‐Glucuronic Acid
- 5 December 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Vol. 53 (4) , 1160-1162
Abstract
The scarcity and expense of access to L‐sugars and other rare sugars have prevented the exploitation of their biological potential; for example D‐psicose, only recently available, has been recognized as an important new food. Here we give the definitive and cheap synthesis of 99.4% pure L‐glucose from D‐glucose which requires purification of neither intermediates nor final product other than extraction into and removal of solvents; a simple crystallization will raise the purity to >99.8%.Keywords
Funding Information
- Fundación Ramón Areces
- Leverhulme Trust
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