levuloseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

levulose (複数形 levuloses)

1. (biochemistry) D-fructose, the left-rotating stereoisomer of fructose.
   • 1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds‎^[1], London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:

     The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

使用する際の注意点

This is not L-fructose, despite being named that way; it is D-fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research

別の表記

• lævulose
• laevulose

同意語

• levoglucose
• D-fructose / D-Fructose

反意語

• L-fructose / L-Fructose

上位語

• fructose
• ketohexose
• hexose
• monosaccharide

関連する語

• dextrose (right sugar)