Geraniol

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Geraniol is the rose-scented allylic alcohol you smell in geraniums and citronella. Structurally it is a head-to-tail dimer of two isoprene units capped with a primary alcohol, the canonical teaching example of the isoprene rule. The textbook lab disconnection is one cut deep: reduce citral (geranial). Push deeper and you walk into the biomimetic isoprene coupling.

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Cell id: geraniol

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