The sesquiterpenoid alcohol, the so-called atractylol, a major constituent of the essential oil from the rhizomes of Atractylodes lancea DE CANDOLLE (Compositae), was separated into the known eudesmol and a new sesquiterpenoid alcohol, hinesol, which were characterised. Association of the two alcohols was established unambiguously by the regeneration of the so-called atractylol from them.
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Yosioka et al. (1959) studied this question.