Question

The total number of chiral carbon atoms present in sucrose is?

Answer 1

Answer:

your answer is 9

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Answer 2

Answer:

9 is the answer!!

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Sucrose has nine chiral centres. Sucrose consists of a glucose unit attached to a fructose unit. The chiral centres are the carbon atoms with four different groups attached. There are no internal mirror images, so every carbon atom is different. Carbons 2,3,4,5 in the fructose unit.