关键词: 二氢月桂烯, 二氢月桂烯醇, 直接水合法, 间接水合法

Abstract: Dihydromyrcol (DHMOH) is one of the most widely-used perfumes in the world，and is mainly produced by the hydration of dihydromyrcene (DHM). This paper is to introduce two main approaches to produce DHMOH from DHM，the direct hydration and the indirect hydration，and the recent researches in this field. The direct hydration becomes the main focus in recent studies for less equipment corrosion，lower equipment investment and more environment friendliness. The researches on new solvents and technology are presented to solve the problems of large solvent demand and high energy consumption in the direct hydration. Among them，ease-to-separated novel solvents，such as ionic liquid and supercritical CO2，are quite promising in the hydration of alkene. Camphene，α-pinene and other terpenes，which share similar chemical structures with DHM，follow almost the same hydration mechanism with DHM，so the researches on the hydration of dihydromyrcene can be applied to these terpenes in most cases and vice versa.

Key words: dihydromyrcene, dihydromyrcol, direct hydration, indirect hydration