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Why are ketoses reducing? What I am usually told is that the carbonyl group cutting through a carbon chain is no reducing.......
plx give me the mechanism...
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- I believe since ketoses contain a carbonyl group, which are highly acidic, acts a hydrogen donor reducing its corresponding acceptor. LostLucidity (talk) 17:39, 12 March 2008 (UTC)