| abstract |
[Problem] To provide a novel and practically useful alcohol that has greater industrial value than existing petrochemical raw materials, and to provide a derivative product therefrom. [Solution] An ethanol that has at least one peak from the following in the gas chromatogram measured using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC/MS): (A) a peak with a retention time of 5 minutes and 25 seconds to 5 minutes and 35 seconds and two peaks with retention times of 2 minutes and 55 seconds to 3 minutes and 5 seconds, (B) a peak with a retention time of 12 minutes and 30 seconds to 12 minutes and 40 seconds, (C) a peak with a retention time of 6 minutes and 36 seconds to 6 minutes and 45 seconds, and (D) a peak with a retention time of 15 minutes and 00 seconds to 15 minutes and 15 seconds. |