(1R)-(-)-Nopol

Clear colorless to light yellow liquid

(-)-Nopol, is a chiral building block used in chemical synthesis. It is an intermediate that can be used for the synthesis of bulky moiety-modified analogs to the sandalwood odorant Polysantol.

ChEBI: (-)-Nopol is a monoterpenoid.

(1R)-(-)-Nopol may be used in the preparation of optically active O,O-diterpenyl dithiophosphoric and O-terpenyl aryldithiophosphonic acids by reacting with tetraphosphorus decasulfide and 2,4-diaryl 1,3,2,4-dithiadiphosphetane-2,4-disulfides, respectively. It may also react with silver hexafluoroantimonate to form a complex, which can be an effective initiator for the nonthermal curing of epoxy resins by electron beam induced cationic polymerization.

(1R)-(-)-Nopol is a chiral terpenol derivative.