what is the difference between L sugars and d sugars??are d sugar and l sugars are right handed and left handed respectively??is l sugar could take a part in formation of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides??
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Monosaccharides are carbohydrate molecules that cannot be broken down by hydrolysis2 into simpler (smaller) carbohydrate molecules. Hence, monosaccharides are at times referred to as “simple sugars” or just :sugars," which infers that they are the simplest (smallest) of the carbohydrates. (The term saccharide is derived from saccharose, which is an old term for cane sugar. Now, it refers to any carbohydrate, especially a monosaccharide; but as subsequent chapters on oligo- and polysaccharides indicate, it can be applied to any size carbohydrate. Mono is derived from the Greek word for one. In chemistry, it often means containing only one, so the term monosaccharide means one saccharide or one sugar, indicating that it is a molecule composed of only one sugar unit and not of two or more sugar units joined together). Monosaccharides are the monomeric units of oligosaccharides (Chapter 3) and polysaccharides (Chapter 4), both of which contain more than one saccharide (sugar) unit and can be hydrolyzed to release their constituent monosaccharides. The common monosaccharides used as building blocks for oligo- and polysaccharides found in foods contain a group termed as the saccharose group.