Isopropanol is the simplest of the secondary alcohols. It is flammable and miscible in chloroform, water, ethanol, and ether, and it has applications as a disinfectant, a solvent, a sample preservative, a reaction intermediate, a fuel additive, etc.
Researchers who work with RNA know that RNA is a sensitive molecule that gets rapidly degraded. Because of the single-stranded nature of RNA, it is easily accessible to proteins to inactivate and target for degradation.
The Thermo Scientific Chemicals range of Molecular Biology Grade solvents is ideal to use for concentrating nucleic acid samples by precipitation often in the presence of monovalent cations (e.g. sodium or ammonium).