Q4 · CSIR NET Chemistry, December 2018
Paper: CSIR NET December 2018 · Subject: Organic Chemistry · Chapter: Natural Products · Topic: Natural Products – General · Marks: 2 · Difficulty: Medium
The keto-hexose among the following is
(a)Xylose
(b)Galactose
(c)Fructose
(d)Mannose
Answer
Answer (as printed): C
Explanation
Among the given options, fructose is the only one which contains a ketonic functional group, having six carbon atoms, thus called as ketohexose. CSIR JUNE 2019
Explanation as extracted from the printed page; notation may be imperfect.
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