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This direct transformation of a carboxylic acid into ketone with minimal tertiaryalcohol formation is proposed to involve a relatively stable copper ketal tetrahedral intermediate.
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Ketones, secondary alcohols and tertiaryalcohols yield a mixture of acids on oxidation.
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In 1860 Hermann Kolbe predicted the existence of secondary and tertiaryalcohols from theoretical considerations.
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To distinguish Priinary, Secondary and TertiaryAlcohols.-alcohols.
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Tertiaryalcohols may be synthesized by a method devised by A. Butlerow in 1864, who thus discovered the tertiary alcohols.
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It is interesting to note that, whereas zinc methyl and ethyl give tertiaryalcohols, zinc propyl only gives secondary alcohols.