2-Methyl-2-butanol Chemistry and Pharmacology

2-Methyl-2-butanol is an isomer of amyl alcohol and has been used in solubilization and extraction cytoplasmic bound membrane enzymes and synthesis of ginsenoside Rb1 esters. The compound has also been utilized in anaerobic biotransformation studies as well as the affects it has on the structure and function of microbial communities in soil.

Chemistry:

2-methyl-2-butanol is aswell accepted as tert-amyl-alcohol, 2m2b, or amylene hydrate. 2-methyl-2-butanol is an booze with the blueprint C5H11OH. 2-methyl-2-butanol is comprised of butane, an alkyl alternation of four carbons. This alternation is commissioned at R2 with a methyl accumulation CH3- and an booze accumulation OH-. It is actinic by the acknowledgment of 2-methyl-2-butene with baptize in the attendance of an acid catalyst.

Pharmacology:

2-methyl-2-butanol inhibits bounden to a proconvulsant website on the GABA receptor which causes abnormally answerable chloride ions to access neurons and access the bulk of activity all-important to could could cause the neurons to fire. As it is a tertiary alcohol, it cannot be metabolized by booze dehydrogenase into aldehydes (which could could cause the hangover associated with arresting ample amounts of ethanol). This makes 2m2b decidedly safer than primary alcohols. However, a aftereffect of this is that 2-methyl-2-butanol has an continued continuance of activity with furnishings which endure up to 12 hours afterwards its consumption.