d-glucose
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Origin of d-glucose
First recorded in 1935–40
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The specific rotatory power of d-glucose is +52.7°.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
In order to explain this phenomenon, it is necessary to assume that there are two modifications of d-glucose, which have been designated respectively as the α and β forms.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
The aldo-hexoses which occur most commonly in plants, either free or in combination, are d-glucose, d-mannose, and d-galactose; while d-fructose and d-sorbose are the common keto-hexoses.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
This latter property is remarkable, as most of them are compounds of the strongly dextrorotatory d-glucose.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher
The form described above is laevo-rotatory, but it is termed d-fructose, since it is related to d-glucose.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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