Isopentyl Alcohol ACS is a clear, colorless alcohol with a distinct banana oil scent. With a chemical formula of C5H12O, it is also referred to as isoamyl alcohol, iso-pentanol, 3-Methylbutanol, and 3-Methyl-1-butanol. This compound exhibits high solubility in acetone, diethyl ether, ethanol, and low solubility in water. It finds extensive use in a variety of industrial applications.
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Application :
- Isopentyl Alcohol ACS is used as a solvent for the preparation of synthetic fruit flavours, such as apricot, banana, cheery, greengage, malt, orange, plum.
- It is a raw material in the production of synthetic banana oil.
- It is used as a solvent in the manufacture of photographic and chemicals.
- It is used as an intermediate in preparation of some compounds, for isoamyl acetate and other esters.
- Isoamyl alcohol is used in a phenol–chloroform extraction mixed with the chloroform to further inhibit RNase activity and prevent solubility of RNAs with long tracts of poly-adenine.
Key features :
- High quality and purity product which met the toughest standard of the American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Used as synthetic flavor
- Used as an antifoaming agent in the chloroform isoamyl alcohol reagent