Structure-Transport Relationships in Aqueous Fructose Solutions: A Combined Molecular Dynamics and NMR Diffusion Study
Abstract Fructose is widely used in the food industry and is proposed as a sustainable biomass feedstock for chemical manufacturing. Upon dissolution in water, it undergoes mutarotation into different tautomers, primarily β-d-fructopyranose (68%) and β-d-fructofuranose (22%), as well as into the linear keto d-fructose...