Meltonium
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Hexanol from Hexane
So I have this 1 liter bottle of hexane just sitting in my refrigerator and was wondering if I could make some hexanol from it. Unfortunately, I do
not have much knowledge of organic chemistry, can I do this easily? If so how?
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Do you just mean any old hexanol, or some specific hexanol? This makes a bit of a difference.
Even more so since your hexane may be a mixture of hexane isomers.
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Oh yeah that does make a difference. I'm thinking of 1, hexanol (I think; this nomenclature is still new to me). Also the supplier I bought the hexane
from assures me it's n-hexane.
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You sure got me there. All I can think of is halogenation and hydrolysis, which would give you some random oh group on the chain, but I don't know
HOW you'd get it at one end. probably somebody more experienced will straighten this out, and I'll be looking on with interest.
All that occurs to me is maybe you could dissolve it in carbon tetrachloride and use molecular sieves of the right size to bind up most of the hexane
molecule to make terminal halogenation more likely. That's a total shot in the dark though.
I'm guessing you'd have an easier time making it out of goat's milk.
Sorry I can't be of more help.
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I wouldn't store n-hexane in a normal refrigerator. First, it's metabolized to a neurotoxin (2,5-hexanedione), so you don't want to store it with
food. Second, you need a specially designed refrigerator to store flammable, volatile chemicals. Standard refrigerators can produce sparks and cause
explosions.
Also, there's no easy way I can think of to selectively introduce an alcohol at the 1-position of hexane.
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there are some methods ,but like metacelsus mentioned,they aren't easy
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1521-3773(2000070...
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2001/p2/b10144...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040403901...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021951706...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040403900...
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/ob/c1ob05...
the last one gives only 1-hexanol ,if you can get the enzyme 
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