ABSTRACT
4-Methyl-2-pentanol may be released to the environment as a result of its manufacture and use as a solvent and its use in organic synthesis and brake fluids. It may be formed naturally as it has been found in the volatiles from mountain Beaufort cheese. 4-Methyl-2-pentanol may be released to the environment as a result of its manufacture and use as a solvent for dyestuffs, oils, gums, resins, waxes, nitrocellulose and ethylcellulose; its use in organic synthesis, froth flotation; and its use in brake fluids. If 4-methyl-2-pentanol is released to water, it will not be expected to adsorb to sediment and suspended particulate matter or to bioconcentrate in aquatic organisms based upon estimated Koc and BCF, respectively, estimated from the log Kow and water solubility. 4-Methyl-2-pentanol was detected at a concn of 136 ppb in a sample of influent water from an unspecified municipal wastewater treatment plant.
