28697-53-2

White to off-white powder

An inhibitor of the enzyme glucose dehydrogenase.

ChEBI: D-arabinopyranose is d-Arabinose in its pyranose form.

Store at RT

Crystallise D-(-)-arabinose three times from EtOH, dry it in vacuo at 60o for 24hours and store it in a vacuum desiccator. It also crystallises from a mixture of H2O/MeOH/EtOH with m 158-160o, or H2O with m 160-161o. [Whistler & Schweiger J Am Chem Soc 81 5190 1959, Fletcher et al. J Am Chem Soc 72 4546 1950, Beilstein 1 IV 4215, see Angyal Adv Carbohydrate Chem Biochem 42 15 1984 for ratio of anomers in solution.]