Higher Alcohols
Higher alcohols, those of greater molecular weight than ethyl alcohol, have many specific and general uses. Isopropyl alcohol is used extensively as a rubbing alcohol, butyl alcohol is a base for perfumes and fixatives, and others are important flavoring agents and perfumes. Polyhydric alcohols, those containing more than one 8OH group, are also important—as, for example, the trihydric alcohol known as glycerol .