Xylulose

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Fischer projection of L-xylulose

Xylulose is a ketopentose — a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms, and including a ketone functional group. It has chemical formula ₅₁₀₅. In nature it occurs in the L- and D- isomers.

L-xylulose accumulates in the urine of pentosuria patients. Since L-xylulose is a reducing sugar like D-glucose, pentosuria patients have been wrongly diagnosed in the past to be diabetic.

See also

• Arabinose
• Deoxyribose
• Lyxose
• Ribose
• Ribulose
• Xylose

External links

• For a full list of external links to MSDSs, spectroscopic data, commercial chemicals suppliers etc. for this compound, see [Chemical sources].

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