Chemistry A-Level
Tertiary alcohol
What Tertiary alcohol means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Tertiary alcohol
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An alcohol in which the –OH group is on a carbon bonded to three other carbon atoms, for example 2-methylpropan-2-ol, (CH₃)₃COH.
Topics that use Tertiary alcohol
- Alcohols (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- acid catalysis
- Acidified dichromate(VI) as oxidising agent
- Balancing redox half-equations
- Controlling oxidation products
- Counting carbon neighbours of the –OH-bearing carbon
- Distillation versus reflux
- Elimination reactions
- Intermolecular hydrogen bonding
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