A soft fruity-waxy ester character with a mild winey, cognac-like nuance. Butyl succinate diesters smell gently sweet and slightly oily, without the sharpness of shorter-chain esters.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 223.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Virtually odorless, to some people displaying a faintly musky odor.
At one time used as a solvent for crystalline perfume materials. Now of little or no interest for such purpose. Has some insect repellant effect.
Produced by direct esterification of n-Butanol with Succinic acid under azeotropic conditions.