8-Terpineol, a minor constituent of commercial terpineol as well as of some essential oils, is a mixture of cis and truns isomers, separation of which by physical methods is laborious while chemical methods involve a number of steps. A direct, simple synthesis of trans-/?-terpineol from ( + )-limonene via its truns-1,2-oxide is described.

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New Facile Synthesis of Dimethyl(phenyl)carbinol and Its Acetate. -The carbinols (II) and (IV), useful as aroma chemicals in perfumery and flavor industry, are prepared by nucleophilic substitution of the tertiary chloride (I) by Zn(OH)2 and Zn acetate under optimized conditions with suppressed formation of dimeric by-products. -(GURUDUTT, K. N.; RAO, L. J. M.; RAO, S.; SRINIVAS, P.; Indian J.

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