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 Reduction of Monosaccharides 

Monosaccharides can be reduced on treatment with Sodium Amalgum (usually Sodium Borohydride) or Hydrogen under high pressure (in presence of a catalyst). In the process of reduction, the aldehyde or ketone group is converted to an alcohol group.

Monosaccharides can be reduced by:-

I. Turning the carbonyl group into an alcohol group.

II. Producing sugar alcohols called alditols.

III. And the products named by replacing the - ose ending with -itol.

For example, D-Glucose reduces to D-Glucitol, also called D-Sorbitol