Daunosamine
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Daunosamine is a deoxy sugar and amino sugar of the hexosamine class.
It has a molecular weight of 147.172 g/mol.
It is a component of the anthracycline class of antineoplastics, linked to a derivative of naphthacene. (In the diagrams on this page, the daunosamine unit is at the bottom center of each figure.)