The separation is facilitated by using amyl alcohol and centrifugation.

It is the ester of amyl alcohol and nitric acid.

There are 8 alcohols with this molecular formula (see amyl alcohol).

Amyl alcohol as a distinct chemical compound refers to pentan-1-ol.

It is one of several isomers of amyl alcohol.

The other amyl alcohols may be obtained synthetically.

In 1863, a French chemist isolated a previously unknown hydrocarbon from the pyrolysis of amyl alcohol.

Amyl alcohol (obsolete)

An amyl alcohol is any of 8 alcohols with the formula CHOH.

This usage may derive from the presence of amyl alcohol in fusel oil, which is often fermented from starches.

Amyl alcohol is used as a solvent and in esterfication for example in the production of amyl acetate.

Amyl alcohol has an oral LD50 of 200 mg/kg (mouse), suggesting that the chemical is significantly more toxic than ethanol.

Amyl alcohols are used as stabilizers in the production of Chloroform and Dichloromethane to stop phosgene from being made.

Pentenes are used for polymerization, and for the synthesis of isoprene, amyl alcohols and Alkylphenols.

(i) Prepare a 100% solution by mixing 10 g, of tribromoethyl alcohol with 10 ml of tertiary amyl alcohol.

A mixture of amyl alcohols (also called amyl alcohol) can be obtained from fusel alcohol.

The most important is isobutyl carbinol, this being the chief constituent of fermentation amyl alcohol, and consequently a constituent of fusel oil.

However, esters formed from other pentanol isomers (amyl alcohols), or mixtures of pentanols, are often referred to as amyl acetate.

The esterification of acetic acid with alcohols like n-butanol, ethanol, isobutanol and amyl alcohol fall in a typical class of reacting systems.

TAA is an isomer of amyl alcohol so it is also known as tert-Amyl alcohol.

According to Goldschmidt it can be extracted by means of xylene, amyl alcohol or turpentine; also without decomposition, by distillation in a current of hydrogen, or carbon dioxide.

Sodium and boiling amyl alcohol reduce it to a tetrahydroretene, whilst if it be heated with phosphorus and hydriodic acid to 260 C, a dodecahydride is formed.

The latter was stabilized with the antioxidant diphenylamine instead of amyl alcohol and it gave safe and regular performance as the standard French gunpowder used during World War I (1914-1918).

Fusel alcohols, also sometimes called fusel oils, or potato oil in Europe, are a mixture of several alcohols (chiefly amyl alcohol) produced as a by-product of alcoholic fermentation.

Sodium in boiling amyl alcohol reduces it to aromatic tetrahydro-1-naphthylamine, a substance having the properties of an aromatic amine, for it can be diazotized and does not possess an ammoniacal smell.