Barfoed's test
Prueba de Barfoed
- Date
- 1873 · confidence high
- Place
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Credited to
- Christen Thomsen Barfoed
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A chemical test that distinguishes monosaccharides from disaccharides by the reduction of copper(II) acetate to copper(I) oxide, forming a brick-red precipitate, developed by Danish chemist Christen Thomsen Barfoed.
What it led to
- a reference method in carbohydrate chemistry and botany
- complements Fehling's test in distinguishing sugar types
- used in teaching analytical organic chemistry