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QAIPMT-2010-Ch-1948: NEET 2010 Chemistry - Class 12 AIPMT-2010-Ch-1948 Solution: Fructose reduces Tollen's reagent due to
Fructose reduces Tollen's reagent due to
Multiple Choice Options
- A asymmetric carbons
- B primary alcoholic group
- C secondary alcoholic group
- D enolisation of fructose followed by conversion to aldehyde by base
Step-by-Step Verified Solution
Under alkaline conditions of the reagent,
fructose gets converted into a mixture of glucose
and mannose (Lobry de Bruyn van Ekenstein
rearrangement) both of which contain the �CHO
group and hence reduce Tollens� reagent to give
silver mirror test.