Experimental and theoretical data on total ionization cross sections for electron scattering by 1-butanol in the energy range 10-100 eV are reported. TICS theoretical data were generated using the BEB and IAM-SCAR approaches. Appearance energies and Wannier exponents for 36 formed cations were determined.

Absolute total cross section (TCS) measurements for electron scattering from 1-propanol molecules are reported for impact energies from 40 to 500 eV. These measurements were obtained using a new apparatus developed at Juiz de Fora Federal University-Brazil, which is based on the measurement of the attenuation of a collimated electron beam through a gas cell containing the molecules to be studied at a given pressure. Besides these experimental measurements, we have also calculated TCS using the Independent-Atom Model with Screening Corrected Additivity Rule and Interference (IAM-SCAR+I) approach with the level of agreement between them being typically found to be very good.