Question: Basing your answers on the general mechanism for the first stage of acid-catalyzed acetal hydrolysis suggest reasonable explanations for the following observations: (a) Methyl α-D-fructofuranoside
Basing your answers on the general mechanism for the first stage of acid-catalyzed acetal hydrolysis
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suggest reasonable explanations for the following observations:
(a) Methyl α-D-fructofuranoside (compound A) undergoes acid-catalyzed hydrolysis some
105 times faster than methyl α-D-glucofuranoside (compound B).
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(b) The β-methyl glucopyranoside of 2-deoxy-D-glucose (compound C) undergoes hydrolysis several thousand times faster than that of D-glucose (compound D).
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H fast slow HO, fast R COR R COR'R COR ; OCH H CH Acetal Hemiacetal CH2OH /OCH3 OH H H OH Compound A CompoundB HOCH2 CH OH OCHs OCHs Compound C Compound D
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