A sharp, pungent alcoholic odor with a fusel-oil character — reminiscent of rough grain spirits or nail-polish remover. Slightly oily and fermented underneath the initial solvent flash, with a mildly sweet-ethereal fade. Rarely used as an odorant per se; more often encountered as a chemical intermediate or trace note.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 64.
Colorless liquid.
Soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Winey-ethereal, rather choking odor, somewhat drier than that of commercial 'Amyl alcohol'.
Mainly used as an intermediate in the production of esters for fruit flavors.
Occasionally used in trace amounts in the reconstruction of certain essential oils.
1) by reduction of Methyl-n-propyl ketone. 2) from 2-Pentene with sulfuric acid.