Carbohydrates Flashcards
- the simplest sugars and do not undergo hydrolysis
– can be classified according to the functional group (carbonyl) present
(aldose or ketose)
Monosaccharides
are polyhydroxy aldehydes or ketones with an empirical formula Cn (H2O)n.
except for deoxy sugars.
Carbohydrates
cyclic hemiacetals (for aldoses) and hemiketals (for aldoses)
formed due to the intramolecular interactions between the hydroxyl and
carbonyl groups of the monosaccharides.
Haworth Projections
Two Cyclic Forms of monosaccahrides
Pyranose – sugars with six-membered rings
Furanose – sugars with five-membered rings
two sugars which are mirror images of each other. For example, Dand L-glucose.
Enantiomers
Stereoisomers of Monosaccharides
Enantiomers
Epimers
Anomers
two sugars that differ only in the orientation of the OH around the
anomeric carbon in the Haworth Projection.
Anomers
two sugars that differ only in the configuration around one carbon atom
Epimers
– consist of two simple sugar units linked by glycosidic bonds
– examples: sucrose, maltose, and lactose
Disaccharides
Sugar units of Maltose and glycosidic bond
a-D-glucose
B-D-glucose
a(1-4)
Sugar units of Lactose and glycosidic bond
B-D-glucose
B-D-galactose
B(1-4)
Sugar units of Sucrose and glycosidic bond
a-D-glucose
B-D-fructose
a(1)-B-(2)
Sugar units of Cellobiose and glycosidic bond
B-D-glucose
B-D-glucose
B(1-4)
Sugar units of Gentiobiose and glycosidic bond
a-D-glucose
B-D-glucose
B(1-6)
made up of 3–10 monosaccharide units joined by glycosidic bonds,
Oligosaccharides
What made up raffinose
(glucose + galactose + fructose)
What made up stachyose
(2 galactose + glucose + fructose)
What made up verbascose
(3 galactose + glucose + fructose)
Two human milk oligosaccharides both derived from lactose.
Lacto-N-tetraose
Lacto-N-pentaose
– made up of more than 10 monosaccharide units joined by glycosidic
bonds
polysaccharides
Two type of Polysaccharides
Homopolysaccharides
Heteropolysaccharides (glycosaminoglycan):
Made up of same monosaccharide units joined by glycosidic bonds
Homopolysaccharides
Cellulose glycosodic bond
B(1-4)
Sugar units of starch and glycosidic bond
a-D-glucose
Amylose: a(1-4)
Amylopectin: a(1-4) and a(1-6) branching, ever15-30 glc units
– a glucose polysaccharide that provides strength to plant cell
walls and consists of the repeating disaccharide cellobiose.
Cellulose