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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 215025, member: 4381&quot;]Sugar has an esther group on it which, actually, is what makes it sugar.&nbsp; The simplist of the ketone or esther groups is cleaved off many important chemical reactions and releases acetone, and also the reverse.&nbsp; The ketone group is so active in Glucose that it reacts with the far half of the molecule to form a perfect sterotyped ring.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is very unusual to hear that a ketone group is &#039;inert&#039;.&nbsp; They are very chemically active giving most fragences their smell, sugars their usefulness in engergy production, drugs their activity and form a large group of biochemical metabolic pathyways.&nbsp; In fact, the esther bond, its hydolysis and estherfication probably form the most important chemical bond in science.&nbsp; Its the foundation for nearly every long chained molecure used in plastics to a a vast majority of nutritional and medicinal substances.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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