Question

How do you make primary alcohols?

Answer 1

By fermentation of sugars?

Explanation:

Humanity has fermented simple sugars to make alcoholic beverages from time immemorial. Of course this ethanol, a primary alcohol, remains as an aqueous solution even after distillation.

For lab syntheses of `1^@` alcohols, hydroboration of terminal olefins followed by oxidative work up gives primary alcohols. Ethylene of course gives ethyl alcohol on treatment with hot steam and catalysis in industrial syntheses.