adjective
- not capable of reducing another chemical compound, especially not able to donate electrons or hydrogen atoms
Usage: chemistry
Examples
- Nonreducing sugars like sucrose do not react with Benedict’s reagent.
- The nonreducing end of the polysaccharide chain lacks a free anomeric carbon.
- Scientists tested whether the compound was reducing or nonreducing.
- Nonreducing disaccharides have both anomeric carbons involved in the glycosidic bond.
- The laboratory analysis confirmed the substance was nonreducing in nature.