Betelphenol2) (allylguaiacol), C10H12O2, has thus far been found only in betel oil, from which it can be isolated in the usual manner by shaking it out with caustic soda solution. It is a strongly refractive solution characterized by the following properties:

1) Report of Schimmel & Co. October 1907, 16.

2) The name betelphenol, given to this compound by its discoverers, was later changed to chavibetol by others.

B. p. 254 to 255°, 131 to 133° (12 to 13 mm.); d15o 1,067.1) B. p. 107 to 109° (4 mm.); d15o 1,0690; nD20o1,54134.2)

In a freezing mixture it congeals to a crystalline mass which melts at + 8,5°.

For its identification the benzoyl compound, m. p. 49 to 50° is utilized. The acetyl compound melts at - 5°; b. p. 275 to 277°.

In alcoholic solution, betelphenol gives an intensively blue-green color with ferric chloride.