reducing sugar question?

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so a hemiketal, acteal, or hemiacteal are all reducing sugar but a ketal isnt?

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reducing sugars are thoses that can be oxidized to an acid. therefore aldehydes sugars (aldose) and their ring form (hemiacetals) are reducing sugars. ketone sugars (ketose) can also be a reducing agent because of ketoenol tautomerisation.
 
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