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Glucose
Question

All the following reagents react with carbonyl group of glucose except

Moderate
Solution

5 moles of Acetic anhydride react with one mole of glucose. One mole of glucose contains 5 moles of -OH groups.

Thus 5 moles of ester linkages are developed.Glucose penta acetate is formed.

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