Butanediol
Index of chemical compounds with the same name From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Index of chemical compounds with the same name From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Butanediol, also called butylene glycol, may refer to any one of four stable structural isomers:
There are also two geminal diols (gem-diols), which are less stable:
Isobutylene glycol may be considered a kind of butylene glycol, similarly to butane historically including n-butane and i-butane (isobutane). The modern name for the closely related type of compounds is methylpropanediol. There are two stable structural isomers:
and one unstable geminal diol:
These three methylpropanediols are structural isomers of butanediols. They are not chiral.
2-Methylpropane-1,3-diol derivatives:
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