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:
- ARacemisation
- BRearrangement
- CInversion
- DBoth $(b)$ and $(c)$
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