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 Glucose-6-phosphate is a sugar compound with 6 carbon atoms, carbon number 6 being phosphorylated. This glucose sugar compound is created in the first step of glycolysis. The reaction involves a group of enzymes known as hexokinases which catalyse the phosphorylation of glucose into glucose-6-phosphate using up ATP. 

Jeremy M. Berg, (2010)Biochemistry, Seventh Edition. Seventh Edition Edition. United States of America, W. H. Freeman.