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Q.What happens when D-glucose is treated with the following reagents?
(a) HI
(b) Bromine water
(c) . Give chemical equations.
Meghalaya MboseMBOSE Meghalaya Intermediate Board 2020Subjective· 3mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →D-glucose's open-chain form, , reacts differently with each reagent depending on how strongly/selectively that reagent oxidises or reduces its functional groups.
- With HI (concentrated, red phosphorus, prolonged heating): this is a strong, exhaustive reduction that removes essentially all the oxygen functionality (converting every /the -derived carbon down to /), collapsing glucose to the simple unbranched alkane n-hexane — a key piece of historical evidence that glucose's six carbon atoms form a straight chain:
- With bromine water: /water is a mild oxidising agent that selectively oxidises only the aldehyde group () to a carboxylic acid (), leaving all the secondary/primary groups untouched, giving the monocarboxylic acid gluconic acid: …
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