One or more options correct
Select the correct statement(s) about biomolecules.
- A. D-Glucose, D-fructose and D-galactose all give the same osazone with excess phenylhydrazine
- B. Sucrose is a non-reducing sugar, and the mixture obtained on its hydrolysis is levorotatory
- C. -D-Glucopyranose and -D-glucopyranose are enantiomers of each other
- D. In a solution whose pH is below the isoelectric point of glycine, glycine migrates toward the anode in an electric field
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Answer: B
(B) is correct. Sucrose links the anomeric carbons of glucose and fructose through a glycosidic bond, so it has no free hemiacetal group and is non-reducing. Its hydrolysis gives an equimolar glucose (dextrorotatory, ) and fructose (strongly levorotatory, ) mixture whose net rotation is negative, so the invert sugar is levorotatory. (A) is wrong: glucose and fructose give the same osazone (and so does mannose), but galactose differs at C-4 and gives a different osazone. (C) is wrong: the and forms of D-glucopyranose differ only at C-1, so they are diastereomers (anomers), not enantiomers. (D) is wrong: at a pH below its isoelectric point, glycine is protonated to a cation and migrates toward the cathode, not the anode.
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