α-Terpineol is a widely used chemical compound with applications on diverse fields, however scarce advances on their industrial method of synthesis have been made on recent years. This work presents a novel greener approach to transform α-pinene to α-terpineol by the use of a low cost ionic liquid that acts as solvent, maintaining the water and acid catalyst that pinene hydration reaction requires, in the same inorganic phase, once reaction has finished and product is separated by simple decantation. By this method of α-terpineol synthesis from α-pinene, the neutralization of product is avoided, and also the necessity to use new catalyst each reaction batch or the recovery of a solvent by distillation.

α-松油醇是一种广泛用于各种领域的化合物，然而，近年来它们的工业合成方法却很少取得进展。这项工作提出了一种新颖的绿色方法，即通过使用低成本的离子液体作为溶剂，将pin烯水合反应所需的水和酸催化剂保持在同一无机相中，一旦反应，即可将α-pine烯转化为α-萜品醇。完成并通过简单的倾析来分离产品。通过这种从α-pine烯合成α-松油醇的方法，避免了产物的中和，并且还需要在每个反应批次中使用新的催化剂或通过蒸馏回收溶剂。