Abstract: A tricyclodecane dimethanol composition comprising tricyclodecane dimethanols, wherein the tricyclodecane dimethanols comprise a chiral compound A, one of whose enantiomers represented by the following formula (I), a chiral compound B, one of whose enantiomers represented by the following formula (II), and a chiral compound C, one of whose enantiomers represented by the following formula (III), and a peak area Xc of the chiral compound C in a gas chromatogram and a total peak areas Xt of tricyclodecane dimethanols in a gas chromatogram, which are detected by a gas chromatography, satisfy Xc/Xt?0.35.

Abstract: A method for producing a polyhydric alcohol includes: subjecting a crude reaction solution obtained by performing a reduction reaction in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst and hydrogen using a polyhydric aldehyde having an alicyclic structure as a starting material to distillation purification. The distillation purification is performed after a content of a metal element in the crude reaction solution is 30 ppm by mass or less, and preferably 10 mass ppm or less.