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Q.What happens when D-glucose is heated with HI? (Give equation only)
Meghalaya MboseMBOSE Meghalaya Intermediate Board 2021Subjective· 1mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →Prolonged heating of glucose with concentrated HI removes all the oxygen-bearing functional groups (reducing the carbonyl and every hydroxyl), leaving a straight-chain saturated hydrocarbon — evidence that glucose's six carbon atoms are unbranched.
On strong/prolonged treatment with concentrated hydroiodic acid (HI) and red phosphorus on heating, D-glucose undergoes complete reduction of the carbonyl group and all five hydroxyl groups (a total deoxygenation), converting the entire six-carbon skeleton into the saturated straight-chain alkane n-hexane:
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