It is best to carry out reactions with sugars in neutral or acid medium and not in alkaline medium. This is because in alkaline medium sugars undergo one of the following changes
  • A
    Racemisation
  • B
    Rearrangement
  • C
    Inversion
  • DBoth $(b)$ and $(c)$
AIIMS 1982, Medium
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