nonosen.
/ˈnəʊnəʊz/, /ˈnəʊnəʊs/, U.S. /ˈnoʊˌnoʊs/, /ˈnoʊˌnoʊz/ Chemistry.
Any monosaccharide having nine carbon atoms in the molecule, esp. when these are all in an unbranched chain.
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nonose1890
1890 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 58 1234 (table) Nonose.
1915 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 23 327 When it was found later that the glucononose was not fermentable, the configurations of the two nonoses became of great interest.
1945 Adv. in Carbohydrate Chem. 1 7 Distinctly different nonoses were obtained in the two researches by the reduction of the respective lactones.
1972 J. S. Brimacombe & J. M. Webber in W. Pigman & D. Horton Carbohydrates (ed. 2) I a. xiv. 497 Extension of the cyanohydrin synthesis to this nonose have a decitol.
1992 in Chemists through Years: Pt. I (Royal Soc. Chem.) (1994) 67/1 The synthesis of artificial sugars such as the nonoses, reported in Fischer's famous Berlin lecture in 1890, led him into the realms of physiology and biology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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