Isoamyl Alcohol Uses

Isoamyl alcohol is good solvent and diluent

Technical

for printing inks, lacquers, gum, inhibitors

and hydraulic fluids. It is used as hydraulic
and lube oil additives, as frothing agents in
mineral dressing application
Routinely

used

in

molecular

biology,

especially in the purification of DNA. It is

widely used in conjunction with phenol and
DNA Extraction

chloroform (25:24:1 phenol: chloroform:

isoamyl alcohol) for the removal of proteins
from the nucleic acid solutions by extraction.
Isoamyl alcohol is used for estimation of
fat in milk and milk products. It is used

Food

as solvent for the preparation of synthetic

apricot, banana, cherry, greengage, malt,
orange, plum, and whisky flavors.
Used as the initial raw material for the

Pharmaceutical

production

of

number

of

drug

preparations: barbamil, validol, bromisoval,

corvalol and amyl nitrite.
Reference
http://www4.mpbio.com/ecom/docs/proddata.nsf/(webtds2)/155078
http://www.chemoxy.co.uk/products-and-applications/products/isoamyl-alcohol/
http://www.sbioinformatics.com/design_thesis/Isoamyl_alcohol/Isoamyl2520alcohol_Introduction.pdf