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Linalool

Linalool, C10H18O, is the molecule the house’s lavender essay names beside linalyl acetate. Its identity is PubChem’s; its place in lavender oil is the trade’s convention on this site, with no analysis filed.

The page once gave its boiling point and said it is found in more than two hundred plant species; neither figure had a source and the site gives neither now. Its volatility class is the simulator’s modeled constant, not a measurement.

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An engraved drawing of the linalool model: hatched atoms joined by ruled bonds, the hydrogens left out.

molecule

The linalool molecule

A computed 3D conformer , modeled, not a photograph of a molecule. PubChem CID 6549.

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PubChem’s computed 3D conformer of linalool (CID 6549, conformer 0000199500000007): the shape a computer model gives the molecule, not an experimental structure and not a picture of a real molecule. Ball and stick: 10 carbon, 1 oxygen; the 18 hydrogen atoms are left out for clarity. The balls are drawn smaller than the atoms’ real reach; a double bond is two sticks, side by side.

In the room
scaled so that one ångström is 4 cm (about 400 million times life size): 14.5 cm tall, 31.4 cm across
Atoms
10 carbon, 1 oxygen · 10 bonds between them
Colours
carbon: ink sepia-2; oxygen: rose highlight; bonds: brass. Colour is a convention here and never carries the meaning alone: the letters on the drawing and this list say which atom is which.
Source
PubChem, CID 6549 (National Center for Biotechnology Information), its computed 3D conformer as filed on this record
Licence
PubChem’s data are public (NCBI); the model and its drawing were made for this site from those coordinates

The files GLB 21 KB · USDZ 47 KB · the drawing (SVG) 4 KB

The record

Each field carries its evidence: open a chip for the source, the quoted words and the confidence. A field with nothing behind it says so and stays empty.

Name
linalool
documented

Linalool

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

CAS
78-70-6
documented

verified: the CAS is among the CID's PubChem synonyms

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

PubChem CID
6549
documented

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Formula
C10H18O
documented

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Molecular weight
154.25
documented

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

g/mol, as PubChem states it

confidence A

IUPAC name
3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-dien-3-ol
documented

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

SMILES
CC(=CCCC(C)(C=C)O)C
documented

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

InChIKey
CDOSHBSSFJOMGT-UHFFFAOYSA-N
documented

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Odour threshold
3.2 ng/L in air (GC-olfactometry odour threshold in air against (E)-dec-2-enal as internal standard; the geometric mean of eight trained assessors)
measured

OT-2 · Elsharif et al. (2015). Structure-odor relationships of linalool, linalyl acetate and their corresponding oxygenated derivatives · read 2026-09-30

in water, the racemate 0.58 µg/kg and (R)-linalool 0.087 µg/kg (OT-1); the site’s older figure came from a proprietary compilation (OT-4), withdrawn as a source on 2026-09-30, and is not repeated

confidence A

Descriptors
sharper, more medicinal
house interpretation

the house’s own reading, labelled as such

the house essay’s words, set against linalyl acetate; no descriptor source is filed

where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”

confidence C

Volatility class
top
modeled

modeled

the volatility simulator’s act rule, a site constant: the house’s volatility table says its values “were chosen for the simulator and are not measurements”

confidence C

Regulation
documented

EU-2009-1223: each record above quotes its entry.

3D structure
PubChem computed 3D conformer · 29 atoms, 28 bonds
modeled

PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

PubChem’s computed 3D conformer: a model, drawn schematically, not an experimental structure (the house’s molecules data note)

confidence A

Wikidata
Q410932
documented

P662 PubChem CID: 6549

WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30

the item states PubChem CID 6549 (P662) and the record’s InChIKey (P235); found by the statement search haswbstatement:P662=6549

confidence A

Odeuropa
EOKG concept
documented

{"concept":"http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/flavornet/odorants/19","relation":"owl:sameAs","via":"Q410932","label":"linalool","scheme":"http://data.odeuropa.eu/vocabulary/flavornet/odorants/"}

ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R · read 2026-09-30

the EOKG concept “linalool” states owl:sameAs Q410932 and the record’s CAS (wdt:P231)

confidence A

Occurs in
  • bergamot essential oil (olio essenziale di bergamotto)
    documented · no share

    named by a review of bergamot oil (the house’s review); its range is not shown. In lavender oil the link is still the trade’s convention, recorded on materials/lavender-essential-oil

    confidence B

In teaching accords

Claims register

Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

  • removed · (removed) (was: Boiling point 198°C)
    unsourced · the claims register

    removed by the house’s review 2026-09-27 (row 2270): a physical constant with no source on the page; it may return with a cited PubChem experimental value at the sourcing phase

  • softened · Many plant species (was: Natural sources: 200+ plant species)
    unsourced · the claims register

    softened by the house’s review: a number with no source; “many” is itself unsourced

    where the site says it: /materials, “Lavandula angustifolia”

  • removed · (removed) (was: Boiling point: 198°C)
    unsourced · the claims register

    removed by the house’s review: a physical constant with no source on the page

  • verified · CAS 78-70-6
    documented · the claims register

    PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

    the CAS is among the PubChem synonyms of CID 6549 (the house’s molecule table)

    confidence A

  • verified · C₁₀H₁₈O
    documented · the claims register

    PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool · read 2026-09-27

    PubChem gives MolecularFormula C10H18O for CID 6549 (the house’s molecule table)

    confidence A

Sources

  1. PUBCHEM-6549 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 6549, Linalool (3,7-dimethylocta-1,6-dien-3-ol). National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine; live database, read 2026-09-27 through the PUG REST endpoints listed in the house’s molecules data. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6549 · read 2026-09-27 · public domain (US government work, NCBI/NLM); acknowledgement requested , cite PubChem
  2. OT-2 · Elsharif SA, Banerjee A, Buettner A. Structure-odor relationships of linalool, linalyl acetate and their corresponding oxygenated derivatives. Frontiers in Chemistry 2015;3:57. DOI 10.3389/fchem.2015.00057. PMID 26501053. PMCID PMC4594031. doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2015.00057 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY (version not recorded)
  3. OT-1 · Kreissl J, Mall V, Steinhaus P, Steinhaus M. Leibniz-LSB@TUM Odorant Database, Version 1.2. Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich: Freising, Germany, 2022. www.leibniz-lsb.de/en/databases/leibniz-lsbtum-o… · read 2026-09-30 · free of charge; scientific use encouraged with full acknowledgement; systematic download or reproduction needs written permission (quoted, not reproduced)
  4. WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0
  5. ODEUROPA-1 · Lisena, P., Ehrhart, T., Troncy, R. European Olfactory Knowledge Graph (EOKG), Odeuropa project. Zenodo, 2024. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10709703. SPARQL endpoint https://data.odeuropa.eu/repositories/odeuropa, read 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10709703 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0

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this record as data: /data/molecule/linalool.json · version 6 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence A