fructose

Fructose A monosaccharide in sweet fruits and honey that is soluble in water, alcohol, or ether. It is used as a preservative and an intravenous infusion in parenteral feeding.

[1. A sugar that occurs naturally in fruits and honey. The dmonosaccharide is a 2-ketohexose that is the most important of the ketohexoses physiologically and one of the two products of sucrose hydrolysis; it is metabolized or converted to glycogen in the absence of insulin. Also referred to as fruit sugar, levoglucose, levulose, and d-arabino-2-hexulose.

Molecular Formula: C₆H₁₂O₆

InChI: InChI=1/C6H12O6/c7-2-6(11)5(10)4(9)3(8)1-12-6/h3-5,7-11H,1-2H2/t3-,4-,5+,6-/m0/s1

InChIKey: InChIKey=LKDRXBCSQODPBY-AZGQCCRYBE
SMILES: C1C(C(C(C(O1)(CO)O)O)O)O

Names:
    Fructopyranose, .beta.-D-
    fructose
    (2S,3R,4S,5S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-2,3,4,5-tetrol

Registries:
    PubChem CID 6432703
    PubChem ID 10535262