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D-Xylonic acid lithium salt

≥95.0% (TLC)

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Synonym(s):
Lithium D-xylonate
Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C5H10O6 · xLi+
CAS Number:
Molecular Weight:
166.13 (free acid basis)
UNSPSC Code:
12352201
PubChem Substance ID:
NACRES:
NA.25

Quality Level

Assay

≥95.0% (TLC)

form

powder or crystals

optical activity

[α]/D 18±2° in H2O

color

white to off-white

storage temp.

2-8°C

SMILES string

OC[C@@H](O)[C@H](O)[C@@H](O)C(O)=O

InChI

1S/C5H10O6/c6-1-2(7)3(8)4(9)5(10)11/h2-4,6-9H,1H2,(H,10,11)/t2-,3+,4-/m1/s1

InChI key

QXKAIJAYHKCRRA-FLRLBIABSA-N

Biochem/physiol Actions

Metabolite of pentose and glucuronate interconversions

Other Notes

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WGK

WGK 3

Flash Point(F)

Not applicable

Flash Point(C)

Not applicable


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Yvonne Nygård et al.
Metabolic engineering, 25, 238-247 (2014-07-30)
D-xylonate is a potential platform chemical which can be produced by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains. In order to address production constraints in more detail, we analysed the role of lactone ring opening in single cells and populations. Both D-xylono-γ-lactone and
Mervi Toivari et al.
Bioresource technology, 133, 555-562 (2013-03-05)
D-xylonic acid is one of the top 30 most desirable chemicals to be derived from biomass sugars identified by the US Department of Energy, being applicable as a non-food substitute for D-gluconic acid and as a platform chemical. We engineered
Note on D-xylonate utilization by ascomycetous and basidiomycetous yeasts.
Van Der Walt, J. P. and Steyn, R. L.
Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 13, 192-193 (1990)
Huaiwei Liu et al.
Bioresource technology, 115, 244-248 (2011-09-16)
An engineered Escherichia coli was constructed to produce D-xylonic acid, one of the top 30 high-value chemicals identified by US Department of Energy. The native pathway for D-xylose catabolism in E. coli W3110 was blocked by disrupting xylose isomerase (XI)
Harry Boer et al.
AMB Express, 9(1), 48-48 (2019-04-12)
The oxidative D-xylose pathway, i.e. Dahms pathway, can be utilised to produce from cheap biomass raw material useful chemical intermediates. In vitro metabolic pathways offer a fast way to study the rate-limiting steps and find the most suitable enzymes for

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