A light, ethereal top-note material with a sharp fresh-green character and a mild fruity-herbal undertone reminiscent of unripe apple and cut stems. Volatile and diffusive, it flashes off quickly leaving little residue.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 81.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Peculiar faint odor, yet choking-nauseating when concentrated. Ethereal without being winey, green but not natural. Has a slightly metallic undertone. In dilution remotely reminiscent of Pear.
Finds occasionally use in perfumery, mostly in industrial odors where its powerful masking effect towards certain solvent odors can be utilized.
1) from iso-Amylalcohol by dehydration. 2) from iso-Amylbromide and Sodium amylalcoholate.