Pentoses

Pentoses
In chemistry, a pentose is a monosaccharide (simple sugar) with five carbon atoms. The chemical formula of many pentoses is , and their molecular weight is 150.13 g/mol.-Ribose
. PubChem compound webpage, accessed on 2010-02-06. Pentoses are very important in

biochemistry

Ribose

is a constituent of

RNA

, and the related molecule,

deoxyribose

, is a constituent of

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