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Buiret reagent will turn your skin brownish/purple. Explain why this happens.

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This is because alkaline CuSO₄ reacts with compounds containing two or more peptide bonds to give a purple colored productwhich is due to formation of co-ordination complex of copper(II) ions with un-shared electron pairs of peptide nitrogen atoms and oxygen atoms of water.

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