Chemical Properties
2-Cyclohexylethanol is a clear colourless liquid. B.P. 204℃. Dry-camphoraceous odor with some (but not much) resemblance to Rose and Patchouli notes.
Occurrence
Has apparently not been reported to occur in nature
Uses
2-Cyclohexylethanol is a useful building block, and has recently been used in a green preparation of oxidative esterification of primary alcohols.
Preparation
By catalytic hydrogenation of phenylethyl alcohol under pressure (Arctander, 1969).
Synthesis Reference(s)
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 108, p. 1325, 1986
DOI: 10.1021/ja00266a049
