JEE Main Chemistry question
Glucose will show mutarotation when the solvent is:
Answer: (D)
Solution
Mutarotation (interconversion of the α- and β-anomers through the open-chain form) requires a solvent that can both donate and accept a proton to catalyse the ring-opening/ring-closing equilibrium; water, an amphiprotic solvent, readily provides
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