Claims
- 1. A mixture of compound containing at least one alcohol defined according to the structure: ##STR231## or defined according to the structure: ##STR232## wherein in the mixture Z represents methylidene defined according to the structure: ##STR233## or ethylidene defined according to the structure: ##STR234## or ethylenyl defined according to the structure: ##STR235## wherein one of the dashed lines represents a carbon-carbon single bond and the other of the dashed lines represents no bond; wherein n is 0 or 1 and m is 0 or 1 with the sum of n+m being equal to 1; wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent hydrogen or methyl; wherein one of the lines:
- ++++
- represents a carbon-carbon single bond and the other of the lines:
- ++++
- represents a carbon-carbon single bond or a carbon-carbon double bond; wherein one of the lines:
- /+/+/+/+/+/
- represents a carbon-carbon single bond and the other of the lines:
- /+/+/+/+/
- represents a carbon-carbon single bond or a carbon-carbon double bond; with the provisos that:
- (i) when R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each hydrogen, the dashed line at the 7-5 position is a carbon-carbon single bond; n=0 and m is 1; Z represents ethylidene having the structure: ##STR236## or ethylenyl having the structure: ##STR237## (ii) when one of R.sub.3 or R.sub.4 is methyl, then either the dashed line at the 7-5 position or the dashed line at the 7-4 position is a carbon-carbon single bond; and Z represents methylidene defined according to the structure: ##STR238## (iii) when R.sub.3 is methyl, then n is 1 and m is 0 and R.sub.4 is hydrogen; and
- (iv) when R.sub.4 is methyl, then R.sub.3 is hydrogen, n is 0 and m is 1
- and wherein one of the lines:
- is a carbon-carbon double bond and the other of the lines:
- is a carbon-carbon single bond, produced according to the process comprising the steps of:
- (1) reacting alpha pinene or beta pinene with a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of a hydroformalytion catalyst selected from the group consisting of rhodium, Co.sub.2 (CO).sub.8 and organophosphorous polydentate ligand at a pressure of from about 3 atmospheres up to about 1000 atmospheres, the reaction temperature being between 70.degree. C. and 100.degree. C. when using a rhodium catalyst; the reaction temperature being between 110.degree. C. and 120.degree. C. when using a Co.sub.2 (CO).sub.8 catalyst; and the reaction temperature being from 90.degree. C. up to 120.degree. C. when using an organophosphorous polydentate ligand; whereby at least one compound is produced, defined according to the structure: ##STR239## or the compound having the structure: ##STR240## wherein in the mixture one of the dashed lines at the 7-5 or 7-4 positions represents a carbon-carbon single bond and the other of the dashed lines at the 7-5 or 7-4 position represents no bond; wherein one of R.sub.3 or R.sub.4 represents hydrogen and the other of R.sub.3 or R.sub.4 represents hydrogen or methyl; wherein m=0 or 1 and n=0 or 1 with the sum of m+n being equal to 1; wherein A and B each represents a methylene defined according to the structure: ##STR241## wherein p=0 or 1 and q=0 or 1 with the provisos that: (i) when the dashed line at the 7-5 position is a carbon-carbon single bond, then R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are both hydrogen, m is 0, n is 1 and q is 1;
- (ii) when one of R.sub.3 or R.sub.4 is methyl and the other of R.sub.3 or R.sub.4 is hydrogen, then p and q are both 0;
- (iii) when R.sub.3 is methyl, then R.sub.4 is hydrogen and the dashed line at the 7-5 position or the dashed line at the 7-4 position is a carbon-carbon signel bond; and m is 0; n is 1 and q is 0;
- (iv) when R.sub.4 is methyla nd R.sub.3 is hydrogen, then n is 0 and m is 1 and p is 0 and one of the dashed lines at the 7-5 position or the 7-4 position is a carbon-carbon single bond,
- (2) reacting the compound having the structure: ##STR242## or the compound having the structure: ##STR243## with methyl ethyl ketone in the presence of a basic catalyst selected from the group consisting of sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, lithium hydroxide, barium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide at reflux conditions and atmospheric pressure; and
- (3) reacting the resulting product with a reducing agent selected from the group consisting of alkali metal borohydrides and lithium aluminum hydride, the reaction being carried out in a solvent inert to the reaction mass under reflux conditions at atmosphereic pressure.
Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of application Ser. No. 396,485, filed July 8, 1982, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,424,378, which, in turn, is a continuation-in-part of application for U.S. Letters Patent, Ser. No. 362,237, filed on Mar. 26, 1982, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,428,387.
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