Tricyclic alcohols and lithium salts thereof
Abstract
Abstract Processes and compositions for altering the flavor and/or aroma of consumable products including foods, tobacco and perfumes utilizing as the essential ingredient the novel organic tricyclic alcohol having the formula: ##SPC1## And a process for preparing the above-mentioned compounds involving first intimately admixing a tetramethyl cyclohexadienone having the structure: ##SPC2## With 3-butenyl lithium having the structure: ##SPC3## Thereby forming a triene compound having the structure: ##SPC4## And then heating the triene compound at an elevated temperature and pressure thereby producing a metallo tricyclic compound having the structure: ##SPC5## Which is then hydrolyzed to form the tricyclic alcohol of this invention having the structure: ##SPC6##
Inventors
- 👤 Kenneth K. Light
- 👤 Edward J. Shuster
- 👤 Joaquin F. Vinals
- 👤 Manfred Hugo Vock
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