Process for effecting aldose to ketose conversion

摘要

A process for the conversion of an aldose, or a substituted aldose, to a ketose, or a substituted ketose, in an aqueous reaction mixture containing a halide of a metal from Group II of the Periodic Table at a concentration in the range 0.5 molar to saturation. The process is particularly suitable for converting glucose into fructose. The preferred metal halide is calcium chloride.