# alditol

> carbohydrate that is an acyclic polyol having the general formula HOCH2[CH(OH)]nCH2OH (formally derivable from an aldose by reduction of the carbonyl group)

**Wikidata**: [Q4625944](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4625944)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_alcohol)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/alditol


## References

1. Compendium of Chemical Terminology
2. Glossary of Class Names of Organic Compounds and Reactive Intermediates Based on Structure (IUPAC Recommendations 1995)
3. Gene Ontology release 2019-11-16
4. YSO-Wikidata mapping project
5. UMLS 2023
6. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)