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Clinical Pharmacy PharmD - 2024/2025 Level 2 Pharmaceutical Organic Chemistry-3 (PC 305)
Reactions of Monosaccharides

1. Glycoside Formation

When a small amount of gaseous HCl is passed into a solution of D-(+)-glucose in
methanol, that results in the formation of anomeric methyl acetals.

Carbohydrate acetals are generally called glycosides, so an acetal of glucose is called

a glucoside, acetal of mannose are mannosides, acetals of fructose are fructosides, and

so on.

2. Formation of Ethers