ribitol
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editribitol (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) The sugar alcohol (2R,3s,4S)-pentane-1,2,3,4,5-pentol formed by the reduction of ribose
- 1964, Hamao Umezawa, Recent Advances in Chemistry and Biochemistry of Antibiotics, page 71:
- Reduction of neobiosamine C followed by hydrolysis gives ribitol.
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editribitol m (uncountable)
- (biochemistry) ribitol (a sugar alcohol formed by the reduction of ribose)
- Synonym: adonitol