Levoglucose

Origin

- + glucose (left-rotating sugar) (left sugar)

Full definition of levoglucose

Noun

1. (archaic) levulose (D-fructose), the left-rotating form of fructose

Usage notes

This is not L-glucose form of glucose despite being named that way, it is the D-fructose form of fructose, due to the origins of stereochemistry and sugar research.