A student is given one compound among the following compounds that gives positive test with Tollen's reagent.

The compound is :
- A
D
- B
A
- C
B
- D
C

Tollen's reagent gives a positive test with aldehydes (and easily oxidisable groups). Hemiacetals (a carbon bearing both -OR and -OH on a ring carbon) exist in equilibrium with their open-chain aldehyde form and therefore reduce Tollen's reagent.
Structure C is a cyclic hemiacetal: ring oxygen and a hydroxyl group on the same carbon. It opens to an open-chain hydroxy-aldehyde, which is then oxidised by Tollen's reagent to give the silver mirror.
The methoxy-substituted analogues (A, B) and the simple tetrahydrofuran-derived structure D are acetals/ethers and do not undergo this equilibrium — no positive test.
Compound C is correct.
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