Fructose Reduces Tollens' Reagent Even Though It Contains No Aldehyde

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Essay

Fructose reduces Tollens' reagent even though it contains no aldehyde group.This occurs because fructose is readily isomerized to an aldose in basic solution.Write the complete stepwise mechanism for the base-catalyzed isomerization of fructose to an aldohexose.Show all intermediate structures and all electron flow with arrows.

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