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Pinacolyl alcohol from farm products???
« on: August 05, 2004, 07:27:08 PM »
Hey all.

I read something a while ago, apparently pinacolyl alcohol is available from certain farm products, sheep dip or parasiticide type stuff as far as I can remember, I tried searching for pinacolyl alcohol via google, and all I get is crap relating to its use in synthesizing soman, and the nephrotoxicity of the compound itself, does anyone know more on this?

A synthesis would be nice, but I can't seem to find any patents or anything, which is a rooyal pain in the general rectal vicinity, because I am planning a few experiments with substitutions of alkyl groups to organic molecules (that are STRICTLY phosphorus/and/or/fluorine free!)

Could anyone throw some light on the synthesis of this annoying alcohol?
Thanks.

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Re:Pinacolyl alcohol from farm products???
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2004, 01:57:31 AM »
This is going to be a tough molecule to synthesize with everyday materials.  It's not easy to make a quaternary carbon.

Have you looked for pinacolone?  That stuff appears to be dirt cheap from chemical suppliers.  You'd just be a reduction away....

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Re:Pinacolyl alcohol from farm products???
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2004, 02:15:33 AM »
There is a reason that I don't want to just buy anything related to pinacolyl alcohol, I myself want it for some pretty random experiments with mercaptans and selenols, problem is, pinacolyl alcohol's only use that I can think of is in the synthesis of the nerve agents soman and chlorosoman, which makes ordering anything like that suspicious as hell :P

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