STUDIES IN THE SANTALOL SERIES. PART I. SEPARATION OF THE SANTALOLS AND THE SANTALENES

The alcohols, α-and β-santalols have been isolated from East Indian sandalwood oil and their physical constants determined. The process has been treated mathematically and several graphs and tables drawn in this connection furnish now an easy method of finding out the composition of a sample of sandalwood oil. Both α-and β-santalene of a high degree of purity have also been obtained and the probable optical rotations of the pure compounds determined by mathematical calculations.