Talk:Fructose
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Molecular Structure
The display of the L and D isomers are too big for the window they appear in. When I go into edit mode they resize. I don't know how to fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jokem (talk • contribs) 20:56, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
Projection error?
There's a mismatch. The Haworth projection of the furanose form at the top of the page has an extra OH group than the furanose form in Figure 1. BrotherSulayman (talk) 20:20, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
- I count 5 in both of them. Dr. Morbius (talk) 20:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
- The figure is stereochemically correct as represented, and shows the appropriate six oxygens. However it is depicted with the hemiketal on the left rather than on the right, so that it is not adhering to the standard Haworth representation. The flip of the structure places the alpha face on top which could also cause confusion. Finally, pyranose rather than furanose form would be a more appropriate depiction of the state of free fructose, the furanoside being found in sucrose.96.54.32.44 (talk) 20:49, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
- I count 5 in both of them. Dr. Morbius (talk) 20:13, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
IUPAC Name
The IUPAC name of "Fructose" is not "Fructose." I'm not sure what the correct IUPAC name is (It's a little bit beyond my ability to come up with myself), but I know that it is currently wrong...
RustyShackleford731 (talk) 05:43, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
- From the IUPAC nomenclature page: "The traditional names of simple monosaccharides, α-amino acids and a large number of natural products have been retained as preferred IUPAC names; in these cases the systematic names are very complicated and virtually never used." 96.54.32.44 (talk) 20:54, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
Fructose is a Hexose
Perhaps mention that fructose is considered a hexose sugar?