A bright, sparkling lemon-peel note with a clean, slightly metallic green facet. Similar to citral but far more stable — dry, zesty and long-lasting for a citrus material, without the tart juiciness of natural lemon.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 598.
Almost colorless or very pale yellowish oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Penetrating and powerful, oily-green, lemony-fresh odor with some resemblance to that of Citral, but overall harsher, not as sweet and not as natural in its notes.
Powerful lemony, but also somewhat metallic and not expressly sweet taste — in dilutions below 5 ppm.
This material has been praised for its Citral-like effect and comparative stability under mildly alkaline conditions (e.g. soap).
Due to its chemical nature, this material is not stable in flavors where acid is incorporated.
1) from Geranial oxime with Acetic anhydride. 2) from Geranyl chloride and Sodium cyanide.