Question

On hydrolysis sucrose gives ____________.

Options

• 2 moles of galactose

• 2 moles of fructose

• 2 moles of glucose

• equimolar mixture of glucose and fructose

Answer 1

On hydrolysis sucrose gives equimolar mixture of glucose and fructose.

Explanation:

Sucrose on hydrolysis in the presence of dil. acid or the enzyme invertase gives one molecule each of glucose and fructose.

\[\ce{\underset{Sucrose}{C12H22O11} + H2O ->[H3O^+][or invertase] \underset{D (+) Glucose}{C6H12O6} + \underset{D (-) Fructose}{C6H12O6}}\]