Q.

Which of the following is not a reducing sugar?

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a

Glucose

b

Sucrose

c

Lactose

d

Maltose

answer is B.

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Detailed Solution

  • Non-reducing sugars are those which cannot donate electrons to other molecules and they cannot be used as reducing agents.
  •  Here the answer is Sucrose because it is a non-reducing sugar because anomeric carbon of both the monosaccharide units are involved in glycoside or acetal formation.
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Which of the following is not a reducing sugar?