Q. Glucose gives silver mirror with ammoniacal silver nitrate because it has
A) Aldehyde group
B) Ester group
C) Ketone group
D) Alcoholic silver nitrate
Explanation
(a)
Glucose gives silver mirror with ammoniacal silver silver nitrate because of presence of $–CHO$ group (aldehyde group) in the structure of glucose.
$CH_{2}OH\ (CHOH)_{4}CHO + Ag_{2}O\ \rightarrow CH_{2}OH\ (CHOH)_{4}COOH\ + \ \ \ \ \ 2Ag\ \downarrow$
Gluconic acid silver mirror
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