Is Fructose Dextrorotatory or Levorotatory?

- Fructose which is mainly found in fruits, and nuts as the monosaccharide unit of sucrose, is a levorotatory sugar as it rotates the plane polarized light to the left. Glucose is a dextrorotatory sugar.

Is fructose a Levorotatory?

Fructose is a levorotatory monosaccharide and an isomer of glucose. Although fructose is a hexose (6 carbon sugar), it generally exists as a 5-member hemiketal ring (a furanose).

Is fructose a Dextrorotatory compound?

In a similar manner, levulose, more commonly known as fructose, causes the plane of polarization to rotate to the left. Fructose is even more strongly levorotatory than glucose is dextrorotatory.