Carbohydrates are biological molecules containing carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1. Carbohydrates are technically hydrates of carbon. Structurally it is more accurate to treat them as ketones and polyhydroxy aldehydes. They are polyhydroxy aldehydes, ketones, acids, alcohols, their simple derivatives and their polymers having linkages of the acetal type. They could be classified based on their degree of polymerization and could be divided directly into three main groups, that is, sugars, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.

As a supplier of isotope labeled products in the industry, Creative Proteomics offers more than 10,000 products labeled with different isotopes of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. Creative Proteomics supplies stable isotope labeled carbohydrates such as D-Glucose-U-13C6, Guanosine monohydrate-1,2,3,4,5-13C5, Glycerol-2-13C and L-fructose-1-13C. Custom synthesis of isotope labeled carbohydrates is also available to meet our customers’ research needs.