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Q. Fructose reduces Tollen’s reagent due to

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Solution:

Under alkaline conditions of the reagent, fructose gets converted into a mixture of glucose and mannose (Lobry de Bruyn van Ekenstein rearrangement) both of which contain the -CHO group and hence reduce Tollen’s reagent to give silver mirror test.