Butyl carbinol

Methyl n-butyl ketone Methyl n.butyl carbinol... 

Use the apparatus detailed in Section 111,20. Dissolve 100 g. (123 ml.) of methyl n-butyl ketone (2-hexanone) (Section 111,152) in 750 ml. of ether and add 150 ml. of water. Introduce 69 g. of clean sodium in the form of wire (or small pieces) as rapidly as possible the reaction must be kept under control and, if necessary, the flask must be cooled in ice or in running water. When all the sodium has reacted, separate the ethereal layer, wash it with 25 ml. of dilute hydrochloric acid (1 1), then with water, dry with anhydrous potassium carbonate or with anhydrous calcium sulphate, and distil through a fractionating column. Collect the fraction of b.p. 136-138°. The yield of methyl n-butyl carbinol (2-hexanol) is 97 g. 

Commercial amyl alcohol is contained in fusel oil from fer mentation and consists mainly of isobutyl carbinol together with about 13 per cent, of secondary butyl carbinol, which renders the liquid optically active. It turns the plane of polarisation to the left (see p. 116). 

Methyl n-amyl carbinol from methyl n-amyl ketone) Methyl n-butyl carbinol from methyl n-butyl ketone) Methyl t o-propyl carbinol Di-n-butyl carbinol from n-butyl bromide)... 

R = alkyl with 5 to 8 carbon atoms Methyl-/so-butyl carbinol (MIBC)... 

Butyl borate 6117 Butyl carbinol (iso) 406 Butyl carbinol (tart) 410... 

Butyl carbamide 1138-9 Butyl carbinol (sec) 411 Butyl carbitol 2232... 

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