p manjunath
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Maltose and lactose both has reducing ends to them due to a free anomeric carbon. Sucrose''s carbon is not
free.
This because sucrose is a disaccharide composed of an aldose and a ketose, the latter of which forms a
five member ring (instead of 6) with the sixth carbon hanging off the end of the ring, attached to what
would be considered a "free anomeric" carbon.
Maltose and lactose are both composed of two aldoses, which both form 6 member rings and have no carbons
attached to the end of either ring.