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Q.What happens when glucose is treated with Br water?
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Bromine water is a mild oxidising agent that selectively oxidises the aldehyde group of open-chain glucose to a carboxylic acid, without touching the -OH groups; the product is gluconic acid.
Open-chain glucose has a -CHO group at C1. Bromine water (a mild oxidant, milder than nitric acid) selectively oxidises this aldehyde group:
CH2OH-(CHOH)4-CHO (glucose) --(Br2 water)--> CH2OH-(CHOH)4-COOH (gluconic acid)
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