A vivid, true-to-life crushed green-leaf note — think freshly torn stems, cucumber peel and unripe pear. The acetal delivers the classic cis-3-hexenol impression but in a rounder, more stable form, giving a natural leafy-fruity freshness without the harsh metallic bite of the free alcohol.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 16.
Colorless oily liquid.
Practically insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful, oily-green odor with a sweet, vegetable-like undertone.
The acetal is also an interesting item as a topnote ingredient in modern perfumes, as a modifier for Galbanum/Styrallylester complexes, in Oakmoss bases, etc.
It is unstable under acid conditions, and therefore not recommended for flavors in which acid is used.
1) from Acetaldehyde and cis-3-Hexenol. 2) from Vinyl-cis-3-hexenyl ether and cis-3-Hexenol.