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ETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOPROPYL ETHER

CAS
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EC
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Material type
synthetic aroma chemical
Canonical source
arctander
How it behaves

Olfactory profile

Family
sweet
Note tendency
Top
Descriptors
spicysweet

A mild, ethereal solvent odor with a faintly sweet, alcoholic character. Not a perfumery aroma material — this is a glycol ether solvent (propyl Cellosolve) used industrially, with a weak, somewhat sharp smell that dissipates quickly.AI · claude-opus-4-7

Intensity
3 / 10
Tenacity
2 / 10
Volatility
8 / 10
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chemicals · No. 1224

Arctander monograph

Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 498.

sweetspicyvegetablebeet-like
MW
104.15
BP
144°C
MP
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Sp.Gr.
0.91
Refractive n
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Rotation
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Appearance

Colorless oily liquid.

Solubility

Soluble in water, alcohol and most perfume oils.

Odor

Sweet, slightly spicy, vegetable, beet-like odor.

Flavor

Bitter, slightly burning taste at concentrations higher than 50 ppm in water.

Uses in perfumery

Has been used as a solvent in certain types of perfume compositions, but is more or less obsolete in perfumery now.

Production

Produced from Ethylene and iso-Propanol by heating in presence of a catalyst.

Identity
Aliases · 4
2-Propoxy ethanolbeta-Hydroxypropyl phenyletherMonopropyl glycolPropyl cellosolve
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