Meanings of tertiary alcohol in English

This direct transformation of a carboxylic acid into ketone with minimal tertiary alcohol formation is proposed to involve a relatively stable copper ketal tetrahedral intermediate.

Ketones, secondary alcohols and tertiary alcohols yield a mixture of acids on oxidation.

In 1860 Hermann Kolbe predicted the existence of secondary and tertiary alcohols from theoretical considerations.

To distinguish Priinary, Secondary and Tertiary Alcohols.-alcohols.

Tertiary alcohols may be synthesized by a method devised by A. Butlerow in 1864, who thus discovered the tertiary alcohols.

It is interesting to note that, whereas zinc methyl and ethyl give tertiary alcohols, zinc propyl only gives secondary alcohols.