Chemical name/formula for sugar???

Question

Hi. I was just wondering: What is the chemical name and formula for household sugar??

i.e. the sugar we put in tea cakes etc

Thanks.

Answer 1

Wow guys.  It's freaking SUCROSE!!!  That's what we call "table sugar."  White crystal.  It's definitely not glucose.  Glucose is way too unstable to be at room temperature in the table sugar form like that.  The formula of sucrose is C12H22O11.  Sucrose is a disaccharide, composing of glucose and fructose linked together by a glycosidic bond.  It has no "reducing end," which makes it more stable than glucose and other sugar with a reducing end.  That's why plants store and transport glucose in the form of sucrose.

Answer 2

C6H12O6 (Sorry the numbers aren't subscript)

Answer 3

standard sugar, or glucose, is composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, in the form of C6 H12 O6.

Answer 4

*beta*-D- Fructofuranosyl-* alpha*-D- glucopyranoside

C12H22O11

*beta* stands for the Greek letter and denotes the configuration at the #1 carbon of fructose. D denotes the configuration at the second-carbon-from-the-end of fructose. *alpha* stands for the Greek letter and denotes the configuration at the #1 carbon of glucose. D denotes the configuration at the #5 carbon of glucose.