lyxosen.
/ˈlɪksəʊz//ˈlɪksəʊs/ Chemistry.
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.
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lyxose1896
1896 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 70 i. 348 The lactone can be reduced with 2½ per cent. sodium amalgam at 0° to the sugar, lyxose.
1961 Tetrahedron XV. 80 This is the first time that l-lyxose..has been found in a natural product [sc. curamycin].
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