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ketones do not reduce tollens and fehling solution but still why are they called reducing sugars

ketones do not reduce tollens and fehling solution but still why are they called reducing sugars

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Arun
25750 Points
5 years ago
Ketones do not have such reducing properties and are not oxidized under similar conditions. Therefore, Tollens' reagent, Fehling's reagent, or Benedict's reagent canbe used to distinguish aldehydes from ketones. However, fructose reduces such reagents even though it contains no aldehyde group

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