Deoxy sugar

Comparison of the chemical
structures of ribose (top)
and deoxyribose (bottom).

Deoxy sugars are sugars that have had a hydroxyl group replaced with a hydrogen atom.

Examples include:

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General:

Geometry

Dioses	Aldodiose (Glycolaldehyde)

Trioses	Ketotriose (Dihydroxyacetone) · Aldotriose (Glyceraldehyde)

Tetroses	Ketotetrose (Erythrulose) · Aldotetroses (Erythrose, Threose)

Pentoses	Ketopentose (Ribulose, Xylulose) Aldopentose (Ribose, Arabinose, Xylose, Lyxose) Deoxy sugar (Deoxyribose)

Hexoses	Ketohexose (Psicose, Fructose, Sorbose, Tagatose) Aldohexose (Allose, Altrose, Glucose, Mannose, Gulose, Idose, Galactose, Talose) Deoxy sugar (Fucose, Fuculose, Rhamnose)

Heptoses	Ketoheptose (Sedoheptulose, Mannoheptulose)

>7	Octose · Nonose (Neuraminic acid)

Multiple

Disaccharides	Sucrose · Lactose · Maltose · Trehalose · Turanose · Cellobiose

Trisaccharides	Raffinose · Melezitose · Maltotriose

Tetrasaccharides	Acarbose · Stachyose

Other oligosaccharides	Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) · Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) · Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS) · Isomaltooligosaccharide (IMO)

Polysaccharides	Glucose/Glucan: Glycogen · Starch (Amylose, Amylopectin) · Cellulose · Dextrin/Dextran · Beta-glucan (Zymosan, Lentinan, Sizofiran) · Maltodextrin Fructose/Fructan: Inulin · Levan beta 2→6 Mannose/Mannan Galactose/Galactan N-Acetylglucosamine: Chitin

biochemical families: prot · nucl · carb (glpr, alco, glys) · lipd (fata/i, phld, strd, gllp, eico) · amac/i · ncbs/i · ttpy/i