Chemical Properties
Clear colorless to pale yellowish liquid.
Occurrence
Has apparently not been reported to occur in nature.
Uses
Ethyl Linalool is fresh bois de rose herbal wet green lavender bergamot. It has a floral, fresh, bergamot character and is sweeter and less agrestic than Linalool. As with Linalool, it is used in a wide variety of notes for floral bouquets.
Preparation
From methyl ethyl ketone and acetylene through a series of reactions (Bedoukian, 1967).
Metabolism
Tertiary alcohols are not readily metabolized and may be excreted in the urine both unchanged and highly conjugated with glucuronic acid. In rabbits, carbon-carbon double bonds make little difference to the extent of conjugation of terf-hexyl alcohols (Williams, 1959).
