gulose
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Gulose is an aldohexose sugar. It is a monosaccharide that is very rare in nature, but has been found in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes. It also exists as a syrup with a sweet taste. It is soluble in water and slightly soluble in methanol. Neither the - nor -forms are fermentable by yeast.
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It sits within the topics Aldohexoses, Chembox image size set and Chemical articles with multiple CAS registry numbers.
Its subject is documented across 27 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- aldohexose
- Has part
- oxygen
- Mass
- 180.16
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Gulose is an aldohexose sugar. It is a monosaccharide that is very rare in nature, but has been found in archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes. It also exists as a syrup with a sweet taste. It is soluble in water and slightly soluble in methanol. Neither the - nor -forms are fermentable by yeast.
D-Gulose is a C-3 epimer of D-galactose and a C-5 epimer of L-mannose.
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