Ketose This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Ketose".
A ketose is a sugar containing one ketone group per molecule.
With 3 carbon atoms, dihydroxyacetone is the simplest of all ketoses and is the only one having no optical activity. Ketoses can isomerize into an aldose where the carbonyl group is located at the end of the molecule.
General qualitative reaction for ketoses is Seliwanoff's test.
