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Chemical Properties of Glucose

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Observe the following reaction and find out that how many number of reactant stereoisomers can be reduced to optically inactive meso product.

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Solution

Meso compound has plane of symmetry passing through it.

So in total 4 sterioisomers are reduced to meso product.

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