JEE Main Chemistry question

Glucose gives the silver mirror test with an ammoniacal solution of silver nitrate because it contains:

(A)Aldehyde groupCorrect
(B)Ester group
(C)Ketone group
(D)Amide group

Answer: (A)

Solution

Ammoniacal silver nitrate (Tollens' reagent) oxidises a free aldehyde group to a carboxylic acid, reducing silver ions to metallic silver and depositing the characteristic mirror; glucose's

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