Prolonged heating of glucose with hydrogen iodide gives:
- Normal butane
- Normal hexane
- Normal heptane
- Normal pentane
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Correct answer: B. Normal hexane
1. The reduction strips every oxygen from the molecule.
2. What is left shows how the carbons are joined.
3. Normal hexane proves a straight six carbon chain.
_Source: syllabus Chemistry Part 2, Unit 10 'Biomolecules'_