mucic acid

With potassium bisulfate mucic acid forms 3-hydroxy-2-pyrone by dehydration and decarboxylation.

When oxidized it forms mucic acid.

Mucic acid can be used to replace tartaric acid in self-rising flour or fizzies.

One synthetic route to pyrrole involves the decarboxylation of ammonium mucate, the ammonium salt of mucic acid.

In 1876 Fitting and Heinzelman synthesized FDCA from mucic acid using concentrated hydrobromic acid.

Mucic acid, CHO or HOOC-(CHOH)-COOH, (also known as galactaric or meso-galactaric acid) is an aldaric acid obtained by nitric acid oxidation of galactose or galactose-containing compounds like lactose, dulcite, quercite, and most varieties of gum.