Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 651.
Colorless or white needle-like crystals.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Sweet-oily, green odor, somewhat grassy-weedy, but quite refreshing and moderately tenacious. The alcohol oxidizes very easily in air and this process affects the odor considerably to the disadvantage of the pleasantness of this alcohol.
This conjugated diene alcohol is occasionally used in perfume compositions as part of a “green note”’, mostly for top note effects in Muguet or Lily, but also in various non-floral types.
1) by Ponndorf reduction (with Aluminum iso-propoxide in iso-Propanol solution) of the corresponding aldehyde, Hexadienal. 2) the alcohol can also be obtained by reduction of the Ethyl ester of the acid, Sorbic acid, which is prepared from Croton aldehyde by MaIonic acid condensation.
| Category | Kind | Max % | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category 1 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 2 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 3 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 4 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 5A | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 5B | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 5C | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 5D | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 6 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 7A | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 7B | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 8 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 9 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 10A | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 10B | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 11A | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 11B | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
| Category 12 | Prohibited | Not permitted | PROHIBITION per IFRA Standard | DOC |
Compliance-support only. Values resolved from the current IFRA corpus; each row cites the document excerpt it came from. Not a substitute for a qualified safety assessor.