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sucrose - reducing?

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plu:
Hello,

Is sucrose a reducing sugar?  (i.e. Does it give a positive test with Fehling's and Tollens's reagents?)

Yggdrasil:
Sucrose is not a reducing sugar because the glycosidic linkage (alpha1-->beta2) links the two anomeric carbons.

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