Clear colorless to pale yellowish liquid.
Has apparently not been reported to occur in nature.
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.
From methyl ethyl ketone and acetylene through a series of reactions (Bedoukian, 1967).
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).