All are colorless liquids, immiscible in water, with similar boiling points.
They are classified are aromatic hydrocarbons bearing a pair of isopropyl (CH(CH3)2) substituents.
In this way, triisopropylbenzenes are converted back to diisopropylbenzenes upon treatment with benzene or monoisopropylbenzene.
[3] The 1,3- and 1,4- isomers are mainly of interest as precursors to the respective dihydroxylbenzene derivatives, which exploits the Hock rearrangements.
All three isomers form hydroperoxides, as is implicit in the Hock rearrangement, which are of interest as radical initiators for polymerization.