tert-Butyl alcohol

skeletal formula of tert-butyl alcohol.

tert-Butyl alcohol is an organic compound. It is also known as tert-butanol. It has the chemical formula (CH3)3COH. It is one of four isomers of butanol. It is the simplest tertiary alcohol.

tert-Butyl alcohol is a very weak acid, so its conjugate base, the tert-butoxide anion, is very strong. tert-Butoxide salts like potassium tert-butoxide are used in organic synthesis as non-nucleophilic bases.[1]

Sources

  1. ↑ Xu, Yulong; Shi, Xiaonan; Wu, Lipeng (2019). "t BuOK-triggered bond formation reactions". RSC Advances. 9 (41): 24025–24029. Bibcode:2019RSCAd...924025X. doi:10.1039/C9RA04242C. PMID 35530574.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.