A classic nitro-musk (Musk Tibetene) — soft, sweet, powdery musk with a warm, slightly animalic and faintly balsamic character. Rounder and less sharp than musk ketone, with good fixative lift on skin. Rarely used today due to regulatory restrictions on nitro musks.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 435.
Yellowish crystals.
Insoluble in water, poorly soluble in alcohol, soluble in most perfume oils.
Sweet and tenacious odor resembling that of Musk Ketone, but somewhat sharper yet not quite as powerful.
Has been suggested for use in perfume compositions, but this material does not have any distinct advantages over the conventional Nitromusks, and it can be considered more or less obsolete now.
From tertiary-Butylalcohol and Pseudocumene followed by Nitration.