-Deoxyribose is an

organic compound In chemistry, organic compounds are generally any chemical compounds that contain carbon-hydrogen or carbon-carbon bonds. Due to carbon's ability to catenate (form chains with other carbon atoms), millions of organic compounds are known. The ...

with formula C₅H₁₀O₄. It is a synthetic

monosaccharide Monosaccharides (from Greek ''monos'': single, '' sacchar'': sugar), also called simple sugars, are the simplest forms of sugar and the most basic units (monomers) from which all carbohydrates are built. They are usually colorless, water-solub ...

, a

stereoisomer In stereochemistry, stereoisomerism, or spatial isomerism, is a form of isomerism in which molecules have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded atoms (constitution), but differ in the three-dimensional orientations of their atoms in ...

(mirror image) of the natural compound -deoxyribose. -Deoxyribose can be synthesized from -galactose ., SHI Zhen-Dan, YANG Bing-Hui, and WU Yu-Lin (2002), ''A stereospecific synthesis of L-deoxyribose, L-ribose and L-ribosides''. Tetrahedron, volume 58, issue 16, pp. 3287–3296 It has been used in chemical research, e.g. in the synthesis of mirror-image DNA. Hidehito Urata, Emiko Ogura, Keiko Shinohara, Yoshiaki Ueda and Masao Akagi (1992), ''Synthesis and properties of mirror-image DNA''. Nucleic Acids Research, volume 20 issue 13, pp. 3325-3332

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