Also known as (±)-isoborneol, exo-2-boranol, exo-2-camphanol, isocamphol, isobornyl alcohol, 1,7,7-Trimethyl-exo-Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol, exo-1,7,7-Trimethyl-Bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol, exo-2-hydroxy-1,7,7-trimethylnorbornane
Isoborneol is a bicyclic organic compound and a terpene derivative. The hydroxyl group in this compound is placed in an exo position. The endo diastereomer is called borneol. Being chiral, isoborneol exists as enantiomers.
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Isoborneol is a bicyclic organic compound and a terpene derivative. The hydroxyl group in this compound is placed in an exo position. The endo diastereomer is called borneol. Being chiral, isoborneol exists as enantiomers.
==Preparation== Isoborneol is synthesized commercially by hydrolysis of isobornyl acetate. The latter is obtained from treatment of camphene with acetic acid in the presence of a strong acid catalyst.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).