Q. The carbohydrate that will yield glucose and fructose on homogeneous catalytic hydrolysis in presence of dilute sulphuric acid is
A) Cellulose
B) Maltose
C) Starch
D) Sucrose
Explanation
(d)
Sucrose is a disaccharide and it yield one molecule each of glucose and fructose on hydrolysis.
$C_{12}H_{22}O_{11} + H_{2}O\ \overset{\ \ \ \ \ H^{+}\ \ \ \ \ }{\rightarrow}\ C_{6}H_{12}O_{6} + C_{6}H_{12}O_{6}$
Sucrose glucose fructose
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