Question

What happens when $D-glucose$ is treated with the following reagents?
(i) $HI$ (ii) Bromine water (iii) $HN{O}_3$.

Answer 1

$\left(i\right)$ When glucose is heated in the presence of $HI$, it reduces to $n-hexane$

$\left(ii\right)$ On treatment with bromine water, glucose gets converted to gluconic acid

$\left(iii\right)$ Glucose gets oxidized to saccharic acid on treatment with $HN{O}_3$

All the reactions have been shown in the figure