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Fructose gives silver mirror test with Tollens’s reagent. It shows the presence of:

Option: 1

Asymmetric carbons.


Option: 2

α-hydroxy ketones


Option: 3

Aldehyde group


Option: 4

All of the above


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Aldehydes and α-hydroxy ketones give positive Tollens’s test. fructose is a α-hydroxy ketone, so it gives positive Tollens’s test.

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