Laminaribiose C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ is a disaccharide which is used notably in the

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

field and as an antiseptic. It is in general obtained by hydrolysis or by

acetolysis In chemistry, solvolysis is a type of nucleophilic substitution (S1/S2) or elimination where the nucleophile is a solvent molecule. Characteristic of S1 reactions, solvolysis of a chiral reactant affords the racemate. Sometimes however, the st ...

of natural polysaccharides of plant origin. It is also a product of the caramelization of glucose.

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