A fresh, green-fruity aldehydic material with a natural, slightly herbal character reminiscent of crushed leaves and unripe fruit. The diethyl acetal form is softer and more diffusive than the parent aldehyde, giving a clean, airy top-note lift with subtle apple-melon and cucumber-green facets.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 321.
Colorless liquid.
Almost insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Earthy-green, sweet, but almost choking, bitter-almond-like, pungent odor with some resemblance to Nitrobenzene.
Its odor characteristics will place it among the masking odors for industrial purposes.
The title material was made by catalytic hydrogenation of 3-Cyclohexene aldehyde, followed by ethanol condensation to make the acetal.