Meanings of primary alcohols in English

Nascent hydrogen reduces them to primary alcohols, and phosphorus pentachloride replaces the carbonyl oxygen by chlorine.

The primary alcohols are first oxidized to aldehydes (q.v.

These are the primary alcohols.

Diamines.-Thediamines contain two amino groups and bear the same relation to the glycols that the primary monamines bear to the primary alcohols.

Thus primary alcohols and aldehydes, both of the aliphatic and aromatic series, readily yield on oxidation acids containing the same number of carbon atoms.