Isolation and characterization of fructose
Aislamiento y caracterización de la fructosa
- Date
- 1846-1847 · confidence medium
- Place
- Versailles, France
- Credited to
- Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
French chemist Augustin-Pierre Dubrunfaut isolated and described fructose (levulose) as a sugar distinct from glucose, after studying the mutarotation of invert sugars.
The name 'fructose' was coined by English chemist William Allen Miller in 1857, a decade after Dubrunfaut's isolation.
What it led to
- chemical distinction between glucose and fructose
- foundations of carbohydrate chemistry
- later development of industrial fructose-based sweeteners