How many statements are correct?
D-glucose, on treating with methanol in presence of dry HCl gives methyl glucosides according to the following reaction
and 
D-glucose Methyl- α -D-glucoside Methyl- β -D-glucoside
(I) (II) (III)
(i) The glucosides do not reduce fehling's solution
(ii) The glucosides do not react with hydrogen cyanide or hydroxylamine
(iii) Behaviour of glucosides as stated in S 1 and S 2 indicates the absence of free –CHO group.
(iv) The two forms of glucosides are enantiomers.
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Sol. (i), (ii) and (iii) are true but (iv) is False because the glycosides are non-super impossible non-mirror images hence they are diastereomers.
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