What are the properties of glucose?

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Glucose Properties

Glucose has one aldehyde group, one primary and four secondary hydroxyl groups. It gives the following reactions:

(i) Acetylation:

What is the properties of glucose?

(ii) Reaction with hydroxylamine/hydrogen cyanide:

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(iii) Glucose reduces ammoniacal silver nitrate solution and Fehling’s solution

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(iv) Oxidation:

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(v) Reduction:

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(vi) D–Glucose reacts with phenyl hydrazine to give glucose phenylhydrazone. If excess of phenylhydrazine is used, a dihydrazone, known as osazone is formed.

What is the properties of glucose?

(vii) On heating with concentrated solution of NaOH, glucose first turns yellow, then brown and finally resinifies. However, with dilute NaOH, glucose undergoes a reversible isomerization and is converted into a mixture of D–glucose, D–mannose and D–fructose.

What is the properties of glucose?

Configuration of Glucose

The Fischer projections for D– and L– glucose are shown as:

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