Advances and Prospects of d-Tagatose Production Based on a Biocatalytic Isomerization Pathway

P Miao, Q Wang, K Ren, Z Zhang, T Xu, M Xu, X Zhang… - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
d-tagatose is a low-calorie alternative to sucrose natural monosaccharide that is nearly as
sweet. As a ketohexose, d-tagatose has disease-relieving and health-promoting properties …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in Biological Production of D-Tagatose: A Comprehensive Overview

H Zhang, X Mao, Z Lu, C Gao, Z Chen, J Liu - Fermentation, 2025 - mdpi.com
D-tagatose is a rare, naturally occurring low-calorie hexose, with a sweetness of 92%
sucrose but only 1/3 of the calories. It has beneficial functions in lowering blood sugar …

Molybdenum oxide with a varied valency ratio to enable selective d-galactose epimerization to d-talose

B Devi, SM Arumugam, RK Kunchala, P Kaur… - Reaction Chemistry & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
D-Talose, classified as a rare and expensive sugar molecule, is gaining attraction due to its
antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. Its production is widely investigated by …

Biobased Chemicals from d-Galactose: An Efficient Route to 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Using a Water/MIBK System in Combination with an HCl/AlCl3 Catalyst

A Martina, HH van de Bovenkamp, JGM Winkelman… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is an attractive building block for biobased chemicals.
Typically, ketoses like d-fructose (FRC) are suitable starting materials and give good yields …

Regulating Lewis acid-based sites on carbon nitride for selectivity conversion of glucose to mannose and fructose in water

J Xu, S Luo, Y Qiao, C Li, Y Zheng, MA Alam… - Biomass and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Mannose exhibits specific biological functions and can be acted as a precursor for many
drugs. In this study, we used glucose as substrate for preparing mannose by thermos …

Production of Tagatose from Galactose with CaO at Room Temperature

J Zhao, E Cruz, X Shi, SA Rankin, GW Huber - ChemCatChem, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the efficacy of Sn‐β zeolite, triethylamine, and CaO in the
isomerization of galactose to tagatose. At temperatures over 80° C, all three reagents …

Galactose isomerization to tagatose over MgBr2 follows a temperature-dependent reaction rate kinetics as predicted by first principles-based theories

B Devi, SM Arumugam, S Mahala, RK Kunchala… - Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tagatose, a classified low-calorie sugar, possesses anti-hyperglycaemic and prebiotic
characteristics. Therefore, it is considered a potential food additive supplement (sweetener) …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming monosaccharides: recent advances in rare sugar production and future exploration

S Nakakita, J Hirabayashi - BBA Advances, 2025 - Elsevier
Rare sugars are defined as monosaccharides and their derivatives that do not exist in nature
at all or that exist in extremely limited amounts despite being theoretically possible. At …

Isomerization of various aldo-saccharides to the corresponding keto-saccharides under microwave heating using uncalcined scallop shell powder as a catalyst

Y Watanabe, T Kobayashi, P Khuwijitjaru… - Food Science and …, 2024 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Abstract Fifty milliliters of 0.2 mol/L aqueous solutions containing two aldo-pentoses (ribose
and xylose), two aldo-hexoses (glucose and galactose), and two aldo-disaccharides …