Short and Sweet: D‐Glucose to L‐Glucose and L‐Glucuronic Acid1. Issue 4 (5th December 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Martínez, R. Fernando; Liu, Zilei; Glawar, Andreas F. G.; Yoshihara, Akihide; Izumori, Ken; Fleet, George W. J.; Jenkinson, Sarah F.
• Is Part Of: Angewandte Chemie international edition. Volume 53:Issue 4(2014)
• Page Start: 1160
• Page End: 1162
• Publication Date: 2013-12-05
• Subjects: Chemistry -- Periodicals; 540
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.201309073
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1433-7851

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main" xml:lang="en"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>The scarcity and expense of access to <sc>L</sc>‐sugars and other rare sugars have prevented the exploitation of their biological potential; for example <sc>D</sc>‐psicose, only recently available, has been recognized as an important new food. Here we give the definitive and cheap synthesis of 99.4% pure <sc>L</sc>‐glucose from <sc>D</sc>‐glucose which requires purification of neither intermediates nor final product other than extraction into and removal of solvents; a simple crystallization will raise the purity to &gt;99.8%.</p> </abstract>