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Ketoses
Introduction
bonded oxygen.
A ketose is a sugar containing one ketone group per molecule.
With 3 carbon atoms, dihydroxyacetone is the simplest of all ketoses and is the only one having no optical activity.
List of ketoses
List of ketoses
Qualitative reaction
Qualitative reaction
General qualitative reaction for ketoses is Seliwanoff’s test.