Why does glucose not exhibit all characteristics reactions of aldehydes?
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Glucose does not exhibit all characteristic reactions of aldehydes because though it has aldehyde functional group in open-chain structure, the aldehyde group generally exists in hemiacetal form where aldehyde functionality is absent.
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