Resumen de Synthesis of Anomeric Methyl Fructofuranosides and Their Separation on an Ion-exchange Resin.

Erkki Nurminen, Päivi Poijärvi, Katja Koskua, Jari Hovinen

• Treatment of d-fructose with methanol in the presence of acid as a catalyst gives a mixture of methyl-ß-d-fructopyranoside, methyl-a-D-fructofuranoside, and methyl-ß-d-fructofuranoside, which were separated on an ion exchange column and characterized polarimetrically.