Glucose and Its Properties
Glucose and Its Properties: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Preparation of Glucose from Sucrose (Cane Sugar), Preparation of Glucose from Starch, Reaction of Glucose with Phenyl Hydrazine & Limitations of Open Chain Structure of Glucose etc.
Important Questions on Glucose and Its Properties
The products obtained on hydrolysis of sucrose are:

What are the products formed when -glucose is reacted with the following species?
(i)
(ii) Bromine water

Name the reagent and condition required for carrying out of the following reaction

Pentaacetate of D-glucose reacts with hydroxylamine to give oxime.

Explain the reaction of glucose which shows the absence of the free aldehyde group in pentaacetate of D-glucose.

Draw the structure of alpha and beta D-glucose.

Explain the absence of free aldehyde group in the pentaacetate of glucose?


The products and respectively are

The products and respectively are

Which of the following will form the same osazone when treated with excess of phenylhydrazine?

Glucose on treatment with excess of phenyl hydrazine gives

The products and respectively are


Name of the product formed when glucose reacts with concentrated .

Name the reagent which on reaction with glucose confirms the presence of five hydroxyl groups in glucose:

Total number of atoms in ring of pyranose are:

How many of the following will produce gluconic acid or it's salt when treated with Glucose
(a) Tollen's reagent
(b)
(c) water
(d)
(e) Fehling's solution
(f) Red
(g) Benedict's solution
(h)
(i)

The _____ form of glucose is optically inactive.

Draw mirror images of glucose and fructose.
