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Mehak Jones

What happens when glucose is treated with concentrated sulphuric acid?

Connor Foley  Follow

These are esterification conditions (carboxylic acid, alcohol, acid). With malic acid you will get the diester, as shown below.

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Andrei Tancau  Follow

It is the dehydration reaction. When you get rid of the water from carbohydrate, which is glucose, all that left is carbon!

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Barbara S. Reeves  Follow

Sulphur will not react with aqueous sulphuric acid.

It will react with concentrated sulphuric acid, particularly at high temperatures, when water and sulphur dioxide are produced.

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Andrew Karonis  Follow

When SO3 is directly added to water the reaction to form sulfuric acid is extremely exothermic and unsafe on an industrial scale.

If you add the SO3 to conc sulfuric acid then dilute it is less exothermic and safer:

H2SO4 + SO3 → H2S2O7

H2S2O7 + H2O → 2H2SO4

Note you get the original H2SO4 back and one more.

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Bradley E. Drury  Follow

Concentrated H2SO4 is added to sugar that forms carbon, steam, and sulfur dioxide. The concentrated H2SO4 is added for dehydration of the sugar to obtain carbon and water.

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Bernd Leps  Follow

Concentrated sulphuric acid is a very good dehydrating agent

Hence it removes all the hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms in the ratio of 2:1 respectively. Hence glucose which is made up of hydrogen,oxygen and carbon gets charred leaving only carbon.

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Cynthia Joy  Follow

when ammonium bromide is treated with the concentrated sulphuric acid it gives ammonium sulphate and hydrogen bromide.

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