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Why starch produce blue colour with iodine but cellulose can not?
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Mr. Singh 4 years, 6 months ago

Cellulose is derived feom O- glucose units, which condensed through beta (1->4) - glycosidic bond. This give cellulose to be a straight polymer therefore, it cannot coil around iodine to produce blue color as starch does.

Esha Dutt 4 years, 6 months ago

Coz starch has helixes which can hold I² but cellulose doeanot have helixes
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