Explain mutarotation. Give its mechanism in case of D-glucose. - Zigya
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Explain mutarotation. Give its mechanism in case of D-glucose.


The spontaneous change in specific rotation of an optically active compound is called mutarotation.All reducing sugars undergo mutarotation. Glucose show mutarotation because during the formation of hemiacetal, another asymmetric carbon is produced (C-1) which can exist in two forms,




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