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  2. Benedict's reagent - Wikipedia

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    Generally, Benedict's test detects the presence of aldehyde groups, alpha-hydroxy-ketones, and hemiacetals, including those that occur in certain ketoses. In example, although the ketose fructose is not strictly a reducing sugar, it is an alpha-hydroxy-ketone which results to a positive test because the base component of Benedict converts it ...

  3. Reducing sugar - Wikipedia

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    Reducing form of glucose(the aldehyde groupis on the far right) A reducing sugaris any sugarthat is capable of acting as a reducing agent.[1] In an alkalinesolution, a reducing sugar forms some aldehydeor ketone, which allows it to act as a reducing agent, for example in Benedict's reagent. In such a reaction, the sugar becomes a carboxylic ...

  4. Copper(I) oxide - Wikipedia

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    Formation of copper(I) oxide is the basis of the Fehling's test and Benedict's test for reducing sugars. These sugars reduce an alkaline solution of a copper(II) salt, giving a bright red precipitate of Cu 2 O. It forms on silver-plated copper parts exposed to moisture when the silver layer is porous or damaged.

  5. Aldonic acid - Wikipedia

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    Aldonic acids are the products of the oxidation of aldoses by Benedict's or Fehling's reagents. [ 6 ] Copper ions react with an aldose to form a red precipitate, Cu 2 O. The reaction scheme of an aldose being oxidized by the copper ions in a Benedict's reagent solution. The R group provided is an example of a sugar backbone.

  6. Disaccharide - Wikipedia

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    A disaccharide (also called a double sugar or biose) [ 1 ] is the sugar formed when two monosaccharides are joined by glycosidic linkage. [ 2 ] Like monosaccharides, disaccharides are simple sugars soluble in water. Three common examples are sucrose, lactose, and maltose. Disaccharides are one of the four chemical groupings of carbohydrates ...

  7. Fehling's solution - Wikipedia

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    Monosaccharides. In organic chemistry, Fehling's solution is a chemical reagent used to differentiate between water-soluble carbohydrate and ketone (>C=O) functional groups, and as a test for reducing sugars and non-reducing sugars, supplementary to the Tollens' reagent test. The test was developed by German chemist Hermann von Fehling in 1849.

  8. Ketose - Wikipedia

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    In organic chemistry, a ketose is a monosaccharide containing one ketone (>C=O) group per molecule. [1][2] The simplest ketose is dihydroxyacetone ((CH2OH)2C=O), which has only three carbon atoms. It is the only ketose with no optical activity. All monosaccharide ketoses are reducing sugars, because they can tautomerize into aldoses via an ...

  9. 3,5-Dinitrosalicylic acid - Wikipedia

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    Infobox references. 3,5-Dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS or DNSA, IUPAC name 2-hydroxy-3,5-dinitrobenzoic acid) is an aromatic compound that reacts with reducing sugars and other reducing molecules to form 3-amino-5-nitrosalicylic acid, which strongly absorbs light at 540 nm. It was first introduced as a method to detect reducing substances in urine ...