Oxidation of Monosaccharides Reducing Sugars

Oxidation of Monosaccharides Reducing Sugars 1117 23-11 Nonreducing Sugars Formation of Glycosides 1119 23-12 Ether and Ester Formation 1121... 

The chemistry of carba sugars is quite similar to that of cyclitols both groups lack the latent carbonyl groups of their saccharide counterparts, and therefore fail to exhibit many of the characteristic properties of monosaccharides. Thus carba sugars and cyclitols do not form hydrazones or osazones, nor do they mutarotate, or reduce heavy-metal salts in base, in contrast to their oxidation products, the inososes. 

Reducing sugars are oxidized by the Benedict s reagent. All monosaccharides and all common disaccharides, except sucrose, are reducing sugars. At one time Benedict s reagent was used to determine the concentration of glucose... 

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