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Title: Which of the compounds shown would produce an optically active aldaric acid?
Post by: cjohns21 on Feb 19, 2022

Question 1.

When D-ribose is treated with nitric acid, it forms ________.

▸ an optically active aldonic acid

▸ a meso aldaric acid

▸ a racemic mixture of aldonic acids

▸ a meso aldonic acid

▸ an optically active aldaric acid

Question 2.

Which of the compounds shown would produce an optically active aldaric acid?




▸ I

▸ II

▸ III

▸ IV

▸ V


Title: Which of the compounds shown would produce an optically active aldaric acid?
Post by: bodie1980 on Feb 19, 2022
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