Product Description

maltose powder

• Maltose has the ability to reduce the Fehlings solution, due to its free aldehyde. Thealdehyde group is oxidized giving a positive result, which means that the maltose is soluble in water.
• Maltose in aqueous solution exhibit mutarotation, due to its anomeric carbon which can form α and β isomers. In aquose solution, it is shown a balanced way between α and β forms.
• It tastes sweet, and it does not exist freely in nature.
• Lu and Sharkey - in ***6 said that maltose was the main carbon form to be carried to chloroplastsduring night.

      The production of maltose is based on the hydrolysis of starch, compound by glucose units α(1→4) and α(1→6) linked, meaning that the carbon number 1 is linked by a glycosidic bond to the carbonnumber 4 or 6 of the other glucose. The 1→4 linked starch part is called amylose and it is a linearpolymer while the 1→4 and 1→6 linked part is the amylopectin, a branched chain polymer, being 1→6 the branching point linkages.