Benedict

BENEDICT,M.,JOHNSON,C.A.,SOLOMON,E ,RUBlN,L.C./TRANS.AH. INST.CNEM.ENGRS.41,371C1945) ... 

Benedict solution Aqueous solution of Na2C03, CuSO, and sodium citrate used for testing for reducing agents, particularly sugars, which give red-yellow colours or precipitates. 

Peter Deuflhard Jan Hermans Benedict Leimkuhler Alan E. Mark Sebastian Reich Robert D. Skeel... 

Benedict s solution Is prepared as follows. Dissolve 86-5 g. of crystallised sodium citrate (2Na,C,H(0, l 1H,0) and 50 g. of anhydrous sodium carbonate in about 350 ml. of water. Filter, if necessary. Add a solution of 8-65 g. of crystallised copper Sulphate in 50 ml. of water with constant stirring. Dilute to 500 ml. The resulting solution should be perfectly clear if it is not, pour it through a fluted filter paper. 

Aromatic aldehydes react with the dimedone reagent (Section 111,70,2). All aromatic aldehydes (i) reduce ammoniacal silver nitrate solution and (ii) restore the colour of SchifiF s reagent many react with sodium bisulphite solution. They do not, in general, reduce Fehling s solution or Benedict s solution. Unlike aliphatic aldehydes, they usually undergo the Cannizzaro reaction (see Section IV,123) under the influence of sodium hydroxide solution. For full experimental details of the above tests, see under Ali-phalic Aldehydes, Section 111,70. They are easily oxidised by dilute alkaline permanganate solution at the ordinary temperature after removal of the manganese dioxide by sulphur dioxide or by sodium bisulphite, the acid can be obtained by acidification of the solution. 

A characteristic property of an aldehyde function is its sensitivity to oxidation A solu tion of copper(II) sulfate as its citrate complex (Benedict s reagent) is capable of oxi dizing aliphatic aldehydes to the corresponding carboxylic acid... 

The formation of a red precipitate of copper(I) oxide by reduction of Cu(II) is taken as a positive test for an aldehyde Carbohydrates that give positive tests with Benedict s reagent are termed reducing sugars... 

Benedict s reagent is the key material in a test kit avail able from drugstores that permits individuals to mom tor the glucose levels in their urine... 

Which of the following would be expected to give a positiv test with Benedicts reagent Why ... 

Oxidation with Benedict s reagent (Section 25 19) Sugars that con tain a free hemiacetal function are called reducing sugars They react with copper(ll) sulfate in a sodium citrate/sodium carbonate buffer (Benedict s reagent) to form a red precipitate of copper(l) oxide Used as a qualitative test for reducing sugars... 

Benedicts reagent (Section 25 19) A solution containing the citrate complex of CUSO4 It is used to test for the presence of reducing sugars... 

Reducing sugar (Section 25 19) A carbohydrate that can be oxidized with substances such as Benedict s reagent In general a carbohydrate with a free hydroxyl group at the anomenc position... 

Benedict s qualitative reagent (for glucose) dissolve 173 g of sodium citrate and 100 g of anhydrous sodium carbonate in about 600 mL of water, and dilute to 850 mL dissolve 17.3 g of CUSO4 5H2O in 100 mL of water and dilute to 150 mL this solution is added to the citrate-carbonate solution with constant stirring. See also the quantitative reagent below. 

Benedict s quantitative reagent (sugar in urine) This solution contains 18 g copper sulfate, 100 g of anhydrous sodium carbonate, 200 g of potassium citrate, 125 g of potassium thiocyanate, and 0.25 g of potassium ferrocyanide per liter 1 mL of this solution = 0.002 g sugar. 

Other pressure—volume—temperature (PVT) relationships may be found in the Hterature ie, Benedict, Webb, Rubin equations of state (4—7) the Benedict, Webb, Rubin, Starling equation of state (8) the Redlich equation of state (9) and the Redlich-Kwong equation of state (10). 

Cubic equations, although simple and able to provide semiquantitative descriptions of real fluid behavior, are not generally useful for accurate representation of volumetric data over wide ranges of T and P. For such appHcations, more comprehensive expressions with large numbers of adjustable parameters are needed. 7h.e simplest of these are the extended virial equations, exemplified by the eight-constant Benedict-Webb-Rubin (BWR) equation of state (13) ... 

Oxidation of the aldehyde group of an aldose to form a carboxyUc acid or carboxyUc acid anion is often used analytically to determine the amount of reducing sugar. The Benedict and Fehling methods measure the amount of reducing sugar present in a fluid. In these reactions, the oxidant, Cu ", is reduced to Cu". Cu" precipitates as CU2O, which can be measured in a variety of ways. In the ToUens test, Ag" is reduced to Ag. ... 

M. Benedict in Progress in NuclearEnergy, Series IN, Technology and Engineering Pergamon Press, Ltd., Oxford, 1956, pp. 3—56. 

M. Molbert in J. R. Merriman and M. Benedict, eds.. Recent developments in Cranium Enrichment, MIChE Symposium Series, No. 221, Vol. 78, The Eurodf Program, AIChE, New York, 1982. 

M. Benedict, T. Pigford, and H. Levi, Nuclear Chemical Engineering, 2nd ed., McGraw-HiU Book Co., New York, 1981, Chapt. 14. 

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