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Fructose reduces Tollens' reagent due to...

Fructose reduces Tollens' reagent due to `:`

A

asymmetric carbons

B

primary alcoholic group

C

secondary alcoholic group

D

enolisation of fructose followed by conversion to aldehyde by base

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D
Fructose is a ketone. In presence of a base. It is converted into a mixture of glucose and mannose (Lobry de Bruyn van Ekenstein rearrangement via enolisation followed by conversion to aldehyde as shown on both of which contain the `-CHO` group and hence reduce Tollens' reagent to give silver mirror test. Thus , option (d) , is correct.
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