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Hi folks.

I'm looking for all possible 4-Carbon alcohols.  Butan-1-ol and butan-2-ol
are obvious, and then there's tert-butanol or 2-methyl-2-propanol, (CH3)3
COH:

     H3
     C
     |
 H3C-C-CH3
     |
     O
     H
     
Theoretically one can imagine propan-2-methanol, which looks like

     H
     O
     |
    HCH
     |
 H3C-C-CH3
     H
     
 but instinct tells me the synthesis of this is impossible, as I cannot
remember a way to get a methyl group onto C2 of propanol.  Bear in mind
that my last organic course was 7 or 8 years ago . . .

Thanks for any input,

Richard

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