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Question
CBSEENCH12011263

Which one of the following species does not exist under normal conditions?

  • (+)Sucrose

  • (+)Lactose

  • (+) Maltose

  • (-) Fructose

Solution

A.

(+)Sucrose

Reducing sugars that exist in hemiacetal and hemiketal forms, undergo mutarotation in aqueous solution.
Among the given carbohydrates, only sucrose is a non-reducing sugar as in it the hemiacetal and hemiketal groups of glucose and fructose are linked together through O-atom and thus, not free. Due to the absence of free hemiacetal or hemiketal group, sucrose does not exhibit mutarotation.