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Name the product formed by the reduction of d-gulose.

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This would have a product of gulitol. When the double-bond between the carbon and the oxygen atoms on the end of the D-gulose chain breaks and becomes a single hydroxide bond with two hydrogen bonds emanating from the oxygen, a sugar alcohol forms.
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