clear colorless to pale yellow liquid
(-)-Linalool has also been used as a reference standard in the quantitative determination of lavender oil in lavaflam tablets using gas chromatography method of analysis(GC).
(-)-Linalool can be used as a reactant in:
- The enantioselective preparation of ophiobolin sesterterpene via diastereoselective reductive radical cascade cyclization.
- The total synthesis of (-)-5,6-dihydrocineromycin B via (-)-linalool O-triethylsilyl ether.;
- The total synthesis of pladienolide B analog.
ChEBI: The (R)-enantiomer of linalool.
L-Linalool is the key volatile compound of jasmine tea, spruce essential oil and young leaves of Litchi chinensis Sonn.
