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Reducing and Non reducing sugars
Asked Oct 4, 2007, 07:02 PM
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2 Answers Why is a sugar reducing and nonreducing? |
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| Reducing sugars are monosaccarides and disaccarides. If my memory serves me right they discolour benedicts solutions because the above sugars have a Hydroxyl group. This group reacts with the copper in the benedicts solution changing it's colour. Non reducing sugars are polysaccarides - they do not have the hydroxyl group and therefore have to be refluxed in acid to obtain a similar reactive group. | ||||
| MarMor (Feb 24, 2011 03:15 AM):
some non-reducing sugars are disaccarides. A reducing sugar its ketone or aldehyde group at the end of the molecule is not locked within the ring structure. Source: |
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