The isomerization of diethylcarbinol derivatives into the corresponding methylpropylcarbinol analogs has been known for many years.'Sherrill, Otto and Piekett, and Sherrill, Baldwin and Haas2 have recently investigated the problem in considerable detail and evolved a method which they feel permits the synthesis of 3-bromopentane (diethylcarbinyl bromide) in a fair state of purity. Prior to the publication of Sherrill's work, we had attempted to synthesize a ...
