Lyxose

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Lyxose
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Lyxose is an aldopentose — a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms, and including an aldehyde functional group. It has chemical formula Template:Chem2. It is a C'-2 carbon epimer of the sugar xylose. The name "lyxose" comes from reversing the prefix "xyl" in "xylose".

Lyxose occurs only rarely in nature, for example, as a component of bacterial glycolipids.[2]

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D-Lyxose in both its furanose and pyranose forms

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  1. https://iupac.qmul.ac.uk/2carb/app.html
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