A light, ethereal fruity-ester note with a rummy, tropical character reminiscent of pineapple and unripe apple. Sharp and diffusive at first, quickly fading to a soft sweet fruitiness.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 178.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Sweet-fruity, but also rather harsh, pineapple-like, diffusive-ethereal odor. Fresher, but less characteristic (a non-descript fruit type) than the other isomers.
Used in flavor compositions for imitation Arak, Banana, Brandy, Butter, Fruit (Tutti-frutti), Liquor, etc.
Occasionally used in masking odors for industrial masking of repulsive odors, phenolic, cresylic, 'chemical' odors, solvent odors, etc.
Produced by direct esterification of iso-Butyl alcohol with iso-Butyric acid under azeotropic conditions.