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Draw the mirror images of glucose and fructose. Are glucose and fructose chiral? Do you

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Draw the mirror images of glucose and fructose. Are glucose and fructose chiral? Do you expect them to be optically active?

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Draw the mirror images of glucose and fructose. Are glucose and fructose chiral? Do you expect them to be optically active?

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Glucose is found as aldohexose, while fructose is found as ketohexose. Glucose has a tendency to form a furan ring while fructose forms a furan ring.

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