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Fructose reduces Tollens' reagent due to...

Fructose reduces Tollens' reagent due to `:`

A

Asymmetric carbons

B

Primary alcoholie group

C

Secondary alcoholic group

D

Enolisation of Fructose followed by conversion to aldehyde by bases

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D
In aqueous `NaOH`, frustose (a-2 ketohexose) is in equilibrium with glucose (an aldohexose). This accounts for the positive Fehling's test observed with the ketohexose.
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