Sucrose. Sucrose or table sugar is obtained from sugar cane or sugar beets. Sucrose is made from glucose and fructose units. The glucose and fructose units are joined by an acetal oxygen bridge in the alpha orientation. The structure is easy to recognize because it contains the six member ring of glucose and the five member ring of fructose.

Molar mass units Gram per mole (g/mol) 342.3 Kilogram per mole (kg/mol) 0.34 Standard atomic weight Hydrogen (H) 339.6 Oxygen (O) 21.39 Sulfur (S) 10.68 Chlorine (Cl) 9.65 Iron (Fe) 6.13 Molecular mass Hydrogen molecule (H2) 169.8 Water molecule (H2O) 19 Table salt (sodium chloride) (NaCl) 5.86 Chlorine molecule (Cl2) 4.83 Sulfur molecule (S8) 1.33

NOTICE: Due to scheduled maintenance at our Gaithersburg campus, this site will not be available from 5:00 pm EDT (21:00 UTC) on Friday June 16 until 5:00 pm EDT (21:00 UTC) on Monday June 19.

Lactose, maltose, and sucrose are all compound sugars, disaccharides, with the general formula C 12 H 22 O 11. They are formed by the combination of two monosaccharide molecules with the exclusion of a molecule of water. Lactose is the naturally occurring sugar found in milk. A molecule of lactose is formed by the combination of a molecule of.

Read Edit View history Tools Sucrose, a disaccharide, is a sugar composed of glucose and fructose subunits. It is produced naturally in plants and is the main constituent of white sugar. It has the molecular formula C 12H 22O 11 . For human consumption, sucrose is extracted and refined from either sugarcane or sugar beet.