(R)-2-Octanol → (-)-Menthol

Reaction equation

[CH3:1][C@@H:2]1[CH2:7][C@H:6]([OH:8])[C@@H:5]([CH:9]([CH3:11])[CH3:10])[CH2:4][CH2:3]1.C[C@@H](O)CCCCCC.C[C@H](O)CCCCCC>>[CH3:1][C@H:2]1[CH2:7][C@@H:6]([OH:8])[C@H:5]([CH:9]([CH3:11])[CH3:10])[CH2:4][CH2:3]1

Participants

Reactant 3

HCID 80080(R)-2-Octanol

HCID 165675(+)-Menthol

HCID 2723888(+)-2-Octanol

Product 1

HCID 16666(-)-Menthol

Procedure

d-menthol, Example 23: (R)-2-octanol, Example 24: (S)-2-octanol.

Sources & evidence

ORD record: ord-401aae98a0774078ac05dd0a2d8a91af
Source dataset: uspto-grants-2006_10
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5104873.v1
Patent number: US07125725B2

Reaction notes

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