levoglucose
English
Etymology
levo- + glucose (left-rotating sugar) (left sugar)
Noun
levoglucose (uncountable)
- (archaic) levulose (D-fructose), the left-rotating form of fructose
Usage notes
This is not L-glucose form of glucose despite being named that way, it is the D-fructose form of fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research.
See also
- dextroglucose (dextrose, D-glucose form of glucose) (right sugar)