Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Arabinose is an aldopentose – a monosaccharide containing five carbon atoms and including an aldehyde (CHO) functional group.For biosynthetic reasons most saccharides are almost always more abundant in nature as the D-form or structurally analogous to D-glyceraldehyde. However L-arabinose is in fact more common than D-arabinose in nature and is found in nature as a component of biopolymers such as hemicellulose and pectin.
