A mercurinium (“mer-cur-in-ee-um”) intermediate is formed when creating these compounds from alkenes (10[1])in the oxymercuration (10[2])reaction. (10[2])These compounds are deprotonated before attacking an alkyl halide (10[1])to produce an ether in the Williamson synthesis. (10[2])Sodium borohydride can be used to reduce an (-5[1])aldehyde (10[1])to these compounds’ “primary” (10[2])type. (10[6]-5[1])Distilling (10[2])one of these (10[2])compounds (10[2])that has two carbons from water is complicated by the formation of an azeotrope (10[3])containing 96% (10[1])of that compound (10[1])and (-5[1])4% water. (10[2]-5[1])A common disinfectant (10[2])contains (-5[1])70% (10[1])of these (10[3])molecules’ (10[4])“isopropyl” (10[3])type. (10[5]-5[1])For (10[1])10 (10[1])points, (10[1])name (10[1])these organic compounds that contain an -OH (“O-H”) group, like ethanol. (10[1])■END■ (10[3])