Monosacharides

Question 1

Monosaccharides can undergo 3 main reactions:

Answer 1

Oxidation reduction
Esterification
Glycoside formation

Question 2

Aldoses can be oxidized to:

Answer 2

Aldonic acids

Question 3

Aldoses can be reduced to:

Answer 3

Alditols

Question 4

Monosaccharides

Answer 4

Single carbohydrate unit, with glucose as the most commonly observed monomer

Question 5

Reducing sugars can be detected by reacting it with what?

Answer 5

Pollen’s or Benedict’s reagents

Question 6

reducing sugars

Answer 6

sugars that can be oxidized = reducing agents

Question 7

deoxy sugars

Answer 7

sugars with a -H replacing an -OH group

Question 8

Esterification

Answer 8

sugars that can react with carboxylic acids and their derivatives, forming esters

Question 9

Phosphorylation

Answer 9

similar reaction to esterification in which a phosphate ester is formed by transferring a phosphate group from ATP onto a sugar

Question 10

Glycoside formation

Answer 10

the basis for building complex carbohydrates and requires the anemic carbon to link to another sugar