D-Ribose

CAS:50-69-1
Product Description:Ribose is an organic compound with the formula C5H10O5; specifically, a monosaccharide (simple sugar) with linear form H?(C=O)?(CHOH)4?H, which has all the hydroxyl groups on the same side in the Fischer projection.
The term may refer to either of two enantiomers: it almost always refers to D-ribose, which occurs widely in nature and is discussed here; or to its synthetic mirror image L-ribose, which is not found in nature and is of limited interest.
D-Ribose was first reported in 1891 by Emil Fischer. It is a C'-2 carbon epimer of the sugar D-arabinose (both isomers of which are named for their source, gum arabic) and ribose itself is named as a transposition of the name of arabinose.
Ribose constitutes the backbone of RNA, a biopolymer that is the basis of genetic transcription. It is related to deoxyribose, as found in DNA. Once phosphorylated, ribose can become a subunit of ATP, NADH, and several other compounds that are critical to metabolism like the secondary messengers cAMP and cGMP.