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ketose

ketose

9.9
A simple sugar that has a ketone group, for example fructose
  • noun
  • /ˈkiːtoʊs/
  • Specialized
translation icon : cetosa
  • Fructose is a common ketose found in many fruits and honey.

Examples

  • But it turns out fructose is the only D hexose ketose that really is relevant for nature.

  • In the laboratory, scientists synthesized a new ketose for their research.

  • OK, so let's here just draw a generic ketose donor.

  • The ketose glucose differs from other sugars due to its unique structure.

Surface Forms

ketose singular
ketoses plural

Morphology

ketose = ketone (semi-transparent) = keto + ose

Formed regularly from 'keto-' (from ketone) + the suffix '-ose' meaning sugar, but this is technical chemistry vocabulary and the suffix '-ose' is not familiar to general B1 learners.

Etymology

Ketose comes from the prefix keto- meaning 'ketone' and the ending -ose meaning 'sugar', the same ending you see in common words like glucose and fructose. So a ketose is simply a 'sugar with a ketone' group, which explains why it is different from a sugar that has an 'aldehyde' group.