A light, fresh fruity-green ester with a soft apple-like character and a subtle creamy nuance. Diffusive and airy in the top, fading fairly quickly with a mild sweet-tart finish reminiscent of unripe fruit skins.AI · claude-opus-4-7
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Perfume and Flavor Chemicals, page 518.
Colorless liquid.
Very slightly soluble in water, soluble in alcohol and oils.
Fruity, herbaceous-sweet and overall refreshing odor of moderate to poor tenacity. The fruity notes are rather diffusive, the herbaceous notes are warm, slightly spicy or rooty.
This ester has been suggested for use in perfume compositions as a modifier in modern herbaceous fragrances, including Lavender/Lavandin, Clary Sage, etc. in Colognes or Citrus-compositions for topnote bases, and in general in novel fragrance types for household products.
1) from Ethyloxalate with Zinc, iodide and Ethyliodide. 2) from Methyl ethyl ketone via its Cyanhydrin and by hydrolysis to the Glycollic acid. Ethyl-esterification yields the title material. Method No. 2) is the common commercial method.