A light, mildly sweet ethereal solvent odor reminiscent of methanol crossed with a faint ester note. Essentially odorless in trace amounts and used more as a green solvent than an olfactive contributor.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 409.
Colorless liquid.
Insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Very diffusive, ethereal odor of poor tenacity. The sweetness resembles that of Acetone, but is not nearly as choking.
This relatively unusual ester has found a little use in perfumery as part of certain top notes compositions, where it enhances the radiation or “diffusive power” by its high vapor pressure and relatively neutral odor type, blending well with the Citrus oils and herbaceous oils, even with many floral compositions. In alcoholic solutions, including “colognes”, it may assist in distracting from the odor of alcohol, being a material of almost the same boiling point, it has good “masking” property for such purpose.
1) from Chloroforrnic ester by heating with lead oxide. 2) from Carbonyl chloride (Phosgen) with Methanol.