Natural product chemistry is defined as
the branch of chemistry that deals with the isolation, identification,
structure elucidation and study of the chemical characteristics of chemical
compounds produced by living organism. It involves the science of natural products
such as carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
Out of all the natural products,
carbohydrates are the most abundant class of organic compounds found in living
organisms. They are end products of photosynthesis, an endothermic reductive
condensation of carbon dioxide requiring light energy and the green pigment
found in plant known as chlorophyll. Carbohydrates are a rich source of
metabolic energy, both for plants and animals that depend on plants on food.
Based on their complex structures, they are divided into two, simple and
complex carbohydrates. Simple
carbohydrates constitute monosaccharides and complex ones include
disaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides. Depending upon their size,
they are named as tetrose, pentose, hexose and heptose.
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