Khusimol

A review of vetiver counts it among the oil’s most concentrated alcohols and, in Haitian oil, among the molecules responsible for its odour. No share is given here.

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Name

khusimol

documented

Khusimol

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

CAS

16223-63-5

documented

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

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

PubChem CID

167519

documented

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Formula

C15H24O

documented

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Molecular weight

220.35

documented

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

g/mol, as PubChem states it

confidence A

IUPAC name

[(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylidene-2-tricyclo[6.2.1.01,5]undecanyl]methanol

documented

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

SMILES

CC1([C@@H]2CC[C@]3(C2)[C@H](CC[C@@H]3C1=C)CO)C

documented

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

InChIKey

OOYRHNIVDZZGQV-BHPKHCPMSA-N

documented

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Odour threshold

withheld: not on record

withheld

no odour-threshold measurement is filed: OT-1 has no entry, and the vetiver study already on file (GC-11) gives thresholds for the zizaenones and khusimone, not khusimol (the house’s review, 2026-09-30)

Descriptors

not on record

not on record

no descriptor on record: no house wording on a data file, no descriptor source filed

Volatility class

not on record

not on record

the simulator’s data (modeled) has no entry for khusimol

Regulation

not on record

not on record

no Regulation record yet

3D structure

PubChem computed 3D conformer · 40 atoms, 42 bonds

modeled

PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylide · read 2026-09-27

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

confidence A

Occurs in

• vetiver oil (vetiver essential oil)
  documented · no share

  and in Haitian oil among the metabolites responsible for its odour (GC-10)

  confidence B

Sources

1. PUBCHEM-167519 · PubChem Compound Summary for CID 167519, Khusimol ([(1R,2S,5S,8R)-7,7-dimethyl-6-methylidene-2-tricyclo[6.2.1.01,5]undecanyl]methanol). 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 site’s molecule data. pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/167519 · read 2026-09-27 · PubChem data are provided by NCBI; the computed conformer is PubChem-generated. No file from PubChem is stored besides the derived JSON (PUBCHEM-108242, "Licence / reuse", written for CID 108242 and read as PubChem’s general terms; the terms for this CID were not re-read).
2. GC-10 · Barcellos-Silva IGC, Dos Santos FKF, Kharkwal H, Chander S, Kharkwal AC, Awasthi R, Dhiman N, Sharma B, Kulkarni GT, Larssen H, Silva JML, Souza MA, Setzer WN, Veiga-Junior VF. Vetiver, Vetiveria zizanioides (L.) Nash: Biotechnology, Biorefineries, and the Production of Volatile Phytochemicals. Plants (Basel) 2025;14(10):1435. DOI 10.3390/plants14101435. PMID 40431000. PMCID PMC12114718. doi.org/10.3390/plants14101435 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0 (open access, MDPI, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed

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this record as data: /data/molecule/khusimol.json · version 2 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A