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All sweeteners are related to sugar in their ability to bind to our chemical receptors for 'sweetness'.  On a chemical level, though, only Sucralose is close.  It starts out as ordinary table sugar, sucrose, and then swaps three OH groups for chlorine atoms.  (They're the green atoms in this diagram of Sucralose):

Sucralose 

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