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Table sugar is (+)-sucrose. Which of these product

I know the answer is C, but can someone explain why it is C? I thought the answer was A, where does the extra Oxygen come from in C?

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The answer is C. The sucrose is made from 1 molecule each of glucose and fructose through a dehydration step to form the disacaride ether linkage.

When the ether is hydrolyzed in presence of acid; protonation takes place on the oxygen of the ethr linkage and then H2O attacks to next anomeric carbon and complete the hydrolysis by loosing the H+(Catalyst). So, the other OH comes from the water.

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