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Crotyl alcohol

chemical compound

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 8, 2025
Entity authorityQ420212 ↗
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Crotyl alcohol, or crotonyl alcohol, is an unsaturated alcohol. It is a colourless liquid that is moderately soluble in water and miscible with most organic solvents. It exhibits cis-trans isomerism about the alkene group, and is a structural isomer of butanone.

It can be synthesized by the hydrogenation of crotonaldehyde. The compound is of little commercial interest, but can be used as a reagent in laboratory organic synthesis.

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“Crotyl alcohol” enters the record as chemical compound. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Crotyl, alcohol and chemical can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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