resulting in domestic demand for sec-butanol declining year by year.

Sec-butanol, also known as 2-butanol, methylethylmethanol, chemical formula C4H10O, molecular weight 74.12, is a colorless liquid with a wine smell, flammable, volatile, optically active, and has a chirality in the molecule Carbon atoms can exist in three forms: right-handed, left-handed and racemic. Methyl ethyl ketone and acetic acid are generated when sec-butyl alcohol is oxidized,…