NEET UG CHEMISTRY MCQ: BIOMOLECULES

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Mostly reactions with sugars are carried out in neutral or
acidic medium, If instead of neutral or acidic medium,
alkaline medium is used to carry out reaction then sugar
will undergoes with _______reaction.

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Correct option: C

Rearrangement

Option C (Rearrangement) is correct because in alkaline medium, sugars undergo Lobry de Bruyn-van Ekenstein rearrangement.

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