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Grade 12Inorganic Chemistry

IN BIOMOLECULES WHY THE SUCROSE SHOW AS NON REDUECING SUGAR

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8 Years agoGrade 12
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The reason that sucrose is a non-reducing sugar is that it has no free aldehyde or keto group. Additionally, its anomeric carbon is not free and can’t easily open up its structure to react with other molecules.