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isopropyl
noun
The univalent organic radical (CH3)2CH-
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This is the first step in the industrial preparation of isopropyl alcohol, which is formed when isopropyl hydrogen sulfate is heated with water.
Alcohols are among the most widely used antiseptics, especially ethyl and isopropyl alcohol, which are commonly used in a 70 percent concentration with water.
Methanol, ethanol, n-propyl alcohol, isopropyl alcohol, and t-butyl alcohol are all miscible with water.
Acetone is also prepared by the dehydrogenation of 2-propanol (isopropyl alcohol).
The second isomer is isopropyl alcohol (2-propanol).
Methyl alcohol, ethyl alcohol, and isopropyl alcohol are free-flowing liquids with fruity odours.
One is called n-propyl alcohol (or 1-propanol), the other isopropyl alcohol (or 2-propanol).
Thus, when sulfuric acid (H2SO4) adds to propylene, the product is isopropyl hydrogen sulfate, not n-propyl hydrogen sulfate (CH3CH2CH2OSO3H).
The common sources of methanol, ethanol, and isopropyl alcohol have been discussed above.
Although isopropyl alcohol is more toxic than ethanol, it has less of a drying effect on the skin, and it is not regulated and taxed by the U.S. government as is ethanol.
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Two arrangements of isoprene units are found in bicyclic sesquiterpenes, the cadalene and the eudalene types, and the carbon skeleton of a sesquiterpene may frequently be determined by heating it with sulfur or selenium to effect dehydrogenation to the corresponding naphthalenic hydrocarbons: cadalene, 4-isopropyl-1,6-dimethylnaphthalene; or eudalene, 7-isopropyl-1-methylnaphthalene.
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