Presentation on Sucrose

Course title: Bio-Organic Chemistry

Course code: Chem-3105
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Sucrose:
 William Miller, an English chemist, coined the word sucrose
in the year 1857.
 Sucrose is commonly referred to as table sugar or cane
sugar.
 It is widely used as a sweetener in food.
 Sucrose is a molecule composed of two monosaccharides,
namely glucose and fructose.
 Sucrose has a monoclinic crystal structure.
Structural Elucidation of Sucrose:
 Molecular formula of sucrose is C12H22O11.
 On hydrolysis with acids, sucrose gives equal part of D-glucose and
D-fructose.
• Sucrose neither reacts with phenylhydrazine nor reduce
fehling solution. Which indicating that this is a non-reducing
sugar and carbonyl group of the both monosaccharides
involved in a linkage.
The glucose linked via its C1 to the C2 of fructose.

• Maltose can break α-glycosidic linkage and emulsin can

break β-glycosidic linkage. Sucrose hydrolysed by maltose
not emulsin.
Thus, indicating that presence of α-glycosidic linkage.
•Sucrose is also hydrolysed by an enzyme takainvertase.

Indicates the presence of β-D-fructofuranose unit in

Sucrose.

• Sucrose react with NaOH to form octa-O-methyl sucrose which on

acid hydrolysis gives 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-methyl -D-glucose and 1,3,4,6-
tetra-O-methyl -D-fructose.
So, the structure of sucrose will be,
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