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COMEDK · Chemistry · 30. Biomolecules

On treatment of glucose with bromine water the product formed is

  1. A saccharic acid
  2. B gluconic acid
  3. C hutamic acid
  4. D acetic acid
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(B) gluconic acid

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Glucose is an aldose sugar containing an aldehyde group at the C-1 position and a primary alcoholic group at the C-6 position. Bromine water acts as a mild oxidizing agent. It selectively oxidizes the aldehyde group (\(-CHO\)) of glucose to a carboxylic acid group (\(-COOH\))…