Ketohexose

A ketohexose is a ketone-containing hexose (a six-carbon monosaccharide). Ketohexoses have three chiral centers, so 8 (2³ = 8) different stereoisomers are possible.

The 4 D-ketohexoses are:

CH₂OH CH₂OH CH₂OH CH₂OH | | | | C=O C=O C=O C=O | | | | HC-OH HO-CH HC-OH HO-CH | | | | HC-OH HC-OH HO-CH HO-CH | | | | HC-OH HC-OH HC-OH HC-OH | | | | CH₂OH CH₂OH CH₂OH CH₂OH D-Psicose D-Fructose D-Sorbose D-Tagatose

Translation of "Ketohexose"

German: Hexosen#Die Ketohexosen, French: Cétohexose, Portuguese: Ceto-hexose, Chinese: 己糖#己酮糖.