Octose

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An octose is a monosaccharide with eight carbons.

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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