Dipropyl ketone (4-heptanone) has a pungent, fresh ketonic odor with herbal-green and mildly fruity facets, reminiscent of overripe fruit skins and a solvent-like sharpness. It flashes off quickly, leaving a faint aromatic-green trail.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 445.
Colorless liquid.
0.5°, soluble in water, miscible with alcohol and oils.
Powerful and diffusive ethereal-fruity, pungent odor, in dilution reminiscent of Pineapple-Strawberry.
Fruity, Strawberry type flavor, but not really sweet, and lacks naturalness.
Rarely, if ever, used in perfumery.
Finds some use in flavor compositions, mainly in 'Tutti-frutti' types, Strawberry, Pineapple-mix flavors, etc.
Produced by hydrolysis of n-Hept-3-yne.