Talk:Hexose
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In Lehninger: Hexoses act also as lewis bases donating electrons. E.g. during nucleophilic attack of MgATP by glucose catalyzed by Hexokinase. I've never read anything about it being an acid i.e. electron acceptor. Really need a citation for that part of the article. Any thoughts?
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Of these, only three occur in nature: D-glucose, D-galactose, and D-mannose.
Of these D isomers all, except altrose, are naturally occurring. No L isomers are found naturally.
I found this two sentences in the article, in the same Aldohexoses section. What does that mean, could somebody explain a bit further please?Fufu Fang 21:36, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
It's a simplification commonly done, as those are by far the commonest, can't be bothered to correct that, as I can't find the example of the altrose (remember it is found on some marine protophyta or such). Dreg743 04:41, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
Why are there no ketohexoses with the carbonyl group at position 3 instead of position 2? Icek 01:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
