octanol
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{{Distinguish|octanal|octanyl|octanoyl|octenol|octynol|Octonal (disambiguation){{!}}octonal}}
Octanols are alcohols with the formula C8H17OH. A simple and important member is 1-octanol, with an unbranched chain of carbons. Other commercially important octanols are 2-octanol and 2-ethylhexanol. Some octanols occur naturally in the form of esters in some essential oils.{{cite web |title=Octanol |url=http://www.hmdb.ca/metabolites/HMDB0001183 |website=Human Metabolome Database |access-date=29 December 2019}}
Isomers
There are 89 possible isomers of octanol,{{cite journal |last1=Henze |first1=Henry |last2=Blair |first2=Charles |title=The number of structurally isomeric alcohols of the methanol series |journal=J. Amer. Chem. Soc. |date=1931-08-05 |volume=8 |issue=53 |pages=3042-3045 |doi=10.1021/ja01359a027 |url=https://oeis.org/A000598/a000598_2.pdf |access-date=5 May 2025}} including: