| Hazard Information | Back Directory | [Chemical Properties]
Colorless or white prismatic crystals. M.P. 70℃. Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
| [Uses]
Gamma-Terpineol will remain a rarity on the ( research shelf, and the perfumer may only smell it once in a while, when the analytical chemist calls him in for identification of some brief "whiffs" of odorous air, exhausted from the Gas-Liquid-Chromatograph vent.
| [Definition]
ChEBI: Gamma-Terpineol is a p-menthane monoterpenoid. | [Preparation]
Gamma-Terpineol is prepared from Mesityloxide plus Acrylonitrile, followed by hydrolysis, cyclization, decarboxylation and Methyl Grignard reaction.
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