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The sugar fructose is an isomer of glucose. Like glucose, fructose forms a cyclic hemiac...

The sugar fructose is an isomer of glucose. Like glucose, fructose forms a cyclic hemiacetal, but in this case the ring is five membered rather than six membered. Show the structure for the hemiacetal formed from fructose and show a mechanism for its formation in acidic solution.

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