For ten points name the compound with formula C6H12O6.
Dump in nitric acid to oxidize, protonate to form a hemiacetal, add sodium amalgam to reduce one terminal carboxlic acid to an aldehyde, then add sodium in ethanol to reduce the aldehyde to an alcohol. After performing a Kiliani synthesis, you are left with two structures, one of which is mannose. The other, whose 16 isomeric forms puzzled the scientific world until Emil Fischer solved the riddle of its structure, is known to biology students as the main product of photosynthesis. For ten points name the compound with formula C6H12O6.
Dump in nitric acid to oxidize, protonate to form a hemiacetal, add sodium amalgam to reduce one terminal carboxlic acid to an aldehyde, then add sodium in ethanol to reduce the aldehyde to an alcohol.
Glucose (accept Fischer's Experiment on early buzz)