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What structural feature is responsible for the reducing property (or oxidizability) of sugars?

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The main structure feature of reducing sugars is the presence of an aldehyde group (−CHO) such as in glucose, mannose, galactose, etc. or a-ketol group (−CO−CH2OH) as present in fructose.

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