A fresh, green-fruity ketone with a soft fatty-aldehydic character. Reminiscent of methyl heptenone but rounder and less sharp, with pear-like and slightly herbal facets over a mild oily undertone.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 196.
Colorless slightly oily liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Powerful fatty-green, floral and sweet odor with fruity undertones.
Used in perfume compositions as a powerful and interesting modifier in Fougéres, where the green and the floral notes fall in place. As a modifier for iso-Butyl linalool in certain florals, such as Gardenia, Orangeblossom, etc.
Produced from Methyl-iso-butyl ketone plus Acetylene, via the acetylenic alcohol to iso-Butyl butenol, followed by ketonization with Diketene to the title material.