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Aymeric
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Hello,
My biochemistry textbook tells me that ribose and fructose give furanes. I had trouble wrapping my head around the cyclization process so I looked for other explanations and I found this one:
http://web.campbell.edu/faculty/nemecz/323_lect/sugars/cyclization.html [Broken]
It seems to say that ribose can take on two forms : furane or pyrane. I just wanted confirmation that linear ribose becomes a furane or a pyrane depending on which -OH connects back to the aldehyde function (if it connects to the last one, it becomes ribopyranose, if it connects to the one before last, it becomes ribofuranose).
Did I get this right?
Thanks!
My biochemistry textbook tells me that ribose and fructose give furanes. I had trouble wrapping my head around the cyclization process so I looked for other explanations and I found this one:
http://web.campbell.edu/faculty/nemecz/323_lect/sugars/cyclization.html [Broken]
It seems to say that ribose can take on two forms : furane or pyrane. I just wanted confirmation that linear ribose becomes a furane or a pyrane depending on which -OH connects back to the aldehyde function (if it connects to the last one, it becomes ribopyranose, if it connects to the one before last, it becomes ribofuranose).
Did I get this right?
Thanks!
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