Summary The dehydration of 2, 3, 4-trimethylpentanol-3 with iodine gives the normal dehydration products with about twice as much dehydration from the tertiary hydrogen atoms as from those of the methyl group. 2. 3-Methyl-2-isopropylbutene-1 and 2, 3, 4- trimethylpentene-2 have been obtained and identified by ozonolysis.