Erythrose
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erythrose-175-17179628
title:
Erythrose
text:
Erythrose is a tetrose saccharide with the chemical formula C4H8O4. It has one aldehyde group, and is thus part of the aldose family. The natural isomer is D-erythrose; it is a diastereomer of D-threose. Erythrose was first isolated in 1849 from rhubarb by the French pharmacist Louis Feux Joseph Garot (1798-1869), and was named as such because of its red hue in the presence of alkali metals (ἐρυθρός, "red"). Erythrose 4-phosphate is an intermediate in the pentose phosphate pathway and the Calvin
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description:
Chemical compound
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrose
date created:
2004-03-29T00:09:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T10:45:00Z
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