glyceraldehyden.
/ˌɡlɪsəˈraldɪhʌɪd/ Chemistry.
A colourless, sweet-tasting, crystalline compound, CHO·CHOH·CH2OH, which is the simplest optically active sugar.
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1882 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 42 1308 The oxidation of the glyceraldehyd to tartronic acid.
1899 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 76 i. 110 It [sc. acraldehyde dibromide] apparently gives rise to glyceraldehyde when left in contact with water.
1951 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. I. xviii. 358 Glyceraldehyde has now been chosen as the standard configuration in sugar chemistry.
1965 New Scientist 17 June 761/2 The patients..were also given glyceraldehyde, a normal intermediate product of glucose metabolism.
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