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Acid or enzymatic hydrolysis of sucrose to give anequimolar mixture of glucose and fructose is called

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esterification
inversion
saponification
insertion

Solution :SUCROSE is DEXTROROTATORY while an equimolar MIXTURE of glucose and fructose which it gives on hydrolysis is laevorotatory. Thus, inversion of optical rotation has occurred during hydrolysis. Thus this hydrolysis is called inversion.


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