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Which one of the following statements is correct about sucrose?(a) It can reduce Tollen’s reagent, however cannot reduce Fehling’s reagent..(b) It undergoes mutarotation like glucose and fructose.(c) It undergoes inversion in the configuration on hydrolysis.(d) It is laevorotatory in nature

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Which one of the following statements is correct about sucrose?(a) It can reduce Tollen’s reagent, however cannot reduce Fehling’s reagent..(b) It undergoes mutarotation like glucose and fructose.(c) It undergoes inversion in the configuration on hydrolysis.(d) It is laevorotatory in nature

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The correct statement about sucrose is (c) It undergoes inversion in the configuration on hydrolysis.

Here's why:

(a) Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar. It does not have a free aldehyde or ketone group to reduce Tollen’s or Fehling’s reagent.

(b) Sucrose does not undergo mutarotation as it does not have a free anomeric carbon. Mutarotation is the change in the optical rotation because of the change in the equilibrium between two anomers, which is not possible in sucrose.

(c) When sucrose is hydrolyzed, it gives one molecule each of glucose and fructose. In this process, the configuration at the anomeric carbon of glucose unit is inverted from α to β. Hence, this statement is correct.

(d) Sucrose is dextrorotatory in nature, not laevorotatory.

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