Fructose gives negative silver mirror test with ammoniacal silver nitrate
A
True
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B
False
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Solution
The correct option is B False In basic medium, fructose show keto-enol tautomerism and thus isomerises to glucose due to which it gives positive Tollen's and Fehling's reagent test.