Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Glucose forms a six-sided ring when dissolved in water (True/False) ?

Actually, it is an equilibrium between the open chain aldehyde form and the ring hemiacetal form. This question is misleading as stated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlucoseGlucose forms a six-sided ring when dissolved in water (True/False) ?
true

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