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lyxose Chem.|ˈlɪksəʊz, -s|
[a. G. lyxose (Fischer & Bromberg 1896, in Ber. d. Deut. Chem. Ges. XXIX. 581), f. xylose xylose by reversal of the first syllable.]
A crystalline pentose sugar, C5H10O5, which differs from xylose in the configuration of the carbon atom adjacent to the aldehyde group, is rare in nature, and is obtain synthetically by degradation of the calcium salt of galactonic acid.
1896Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LXX. i. 348 The lactone can be reduced with 2½ per cent. sodium amalgam at 0° to the sugar, lyxose. 1961Tetrahedron XV. 80 This is the first time that l-lyxose..has been found in a natural product [sc. curamycin]. |