Formaldehyde was converted to monosaccharides. This provides the basis for a model for the primordial origin of monosaccharides.

Simple carbohydrates are made of one or two sugar units. The simplest carbohydrates are monosaccharides (simple sugars), made from just one sugar unit. Monosaccharides include glucose, fructose ...

Chemically, sugars are simple carbohydrates, also known as saccharides, and can be categorized into two main types: monosaccharides and disaccharides. Monosaccharides include glucose, fructose, and ...

The chemical synthesis of natural oligosaccharides by sequentially stitching monosaccharides together remains a major challenge because of the complexity of carbohydrate structures. A recent paper ...